Air Enthusiast 1999-03
B.van der Klaauw - Unexpected Windfalls
Rumpler C.I, serial 968/17, with LVA roundels. It was given Dutch serial LA-49.
Dutch Nieuport XIC-1 fighter, built by Trompenburg.
LA-33 was one of the Sopwith 1 1/2-Strutters acquired by the LVA. It landed near Schoondijke on August 28, 1916, and had RNAS serial 9396.
Hanriot-built 1 1/2 Strutter belonged to the French Air Force and was taken over by the LVA as LA-45.
BE.2c 1754, landed on Dutch soil on March 10,1915, and subsequently went to the LVA as LA-24.
Various types of Friedrichshafen floatplanes were interned. FF-33J, German serial 1682, went to the MLD as V-4.
RNAS Sopwith Pup came down near Cadzand on March 1, 1917, and went to the LVA as LA-41.
One of the first Trompenburg-built Farman F-22s, LA-11. Note the simple armament in the nose.
Albatros D.III which landed near Breskens on September 19, 1917. Carrying the German serial 2002/16, the LVA took it over as AL-211.
Friedrichshafen G.III bomber, 828/17, came down in a meadow near Oosterhout on May 23, 1918, and went to the LVA as FG-702, but it crashed on its first flight in Dutch service.
One of the German types interned in the Netherlands was the Halberstadt CL.II, two of which arrived.
An M-8 (A-I) was the very first Fokker aircraft to be used by the LVA. It was, short lived, crashing soon after it had been acquired.