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The years 1919-1928
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Wilhelmina of The Netherlands grants the airline-to-be the right to bear
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1919
Letter from the Private Secretary to Her
Majesty
Queen Wilhelmina dated September 12th, 1919 bestowing royal patronage on
the fledgling airline and creating the name it still proudly bears, KLM
Royal Dutch Airlines. |
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1920
Arrival first flight
May 17th, 1920, KLM's first scheduled flight on arrival from London at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. KLM and Schiphol have become household names firmly linked in everyone's minds throughout the world. |
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1921
First Fokker aircraft
In 1921 KLM ordered its first Fokker aircraft the Fokker F-II. |
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1922
1922 First flight Brussels
June 1st, 1922, scheduled flights to
Brussels commenced. Nobody wanted to be left out of the official photo
recording the event. |
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1923
Crates of chickens
Right from the beginning KLM concentrated on its core activities, transporting passengers, cargo and mail by air. Crates of chicks ready for loading in 1923. |
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1924
Crew Fokker F-VII Indonesia
The young airline's ambitious plans for a link with far-off Indonesia took off in 1924. This Fokker F-VII, the H-NACC, pioneered the route to the East that year. The crew posed in front of their craft before leaving on their epic flight of 15,373 kilometers. It lasted 55 days as engine trouble on the way held them up. |
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1925
Fokker F-VIIA
The Fokker F-VIIA joined KLM's fleet in 1925. It could seat 8 passengers but was also used as freighter carrying 900 kilograms of cargo. |
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1926
A heated cabin
KLM regularly added new destinations to its network. The more northerly cities were not forgotten. Services to Malmo were started in 1926. A heated cabin helped to make the journey more comfortable. |
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1927
1st intercontinental charter
KLM has a long roll of 'firsts' in its record book, among them the world's first intercontinental charter flight in 1927. The American millionaire Van Lear Black after signing the contract. The flight departed from Waalhaven Airport, in those days an important center for KLM operations. |
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1928
Fokker F-VIIB H-NACC
The H-NACC's pioneering flight had
demonstrated that Indonesia could be reached by air. More and more voices
were raised in favor of regular services. A number of trial flights were
conducted in 1928. On one such flight a Fokker F-VIIB would consume 13,000
liters of fuel and oil. Present-day wide body airplanes consume fifteen
times that amount on the same trip. However, they do carry more than 100
times as many passengers. |
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