Have a look at Amsterdam Municipal Airport and H-NADP in 1927.

This type of aircraft was also used by KLM Aerocarto (founded in 1921). This particular airframe has no history with KLM, but flew for a Swiss company.
Many famous KLM names have flown with this type: Aler, Smirnoff, Frijns, Soer, Geijsendorfer, Parmentier, Van Veenendaal and Viruly. The famous Amsterdam - Batavia (Jakarta) schedule was the longest schedule flown by a commercial operator for a long time.
It is fantastic that the Aviodrome has preserved this history in such vivid form.

R.B.C. (Bob) Noorduyn was born in Holland, but worked as a young engineer in England for Sopwith and Armstron-Whitworth. He emigrated to the US in 1920, to work for Anthony Fokker. He organized the Atlantic Aviation Corporation, which became the Fokker Aircraft Corporation. Together they conceived the Fokker Universal, later followed by the Super Universal. He was also instrumental in the design of the Fokker Trimotor. In 1928 he joined the Bellanca Aircraft Corporation and worked on the famous Bellanca Pacemaker.
In 1934 Bob Noorduyn and Walter C. Clayton went to Montreal,Canada and started Norseman Aircraft Ltd. The prototype Norseman first flew November 14, 1935. Many Norseman were used during WW II by many countries, but chiefly by the US Army Air Force as a utility cargo plane designated UC-64A.
Here's a link that tells more: http://noorduynnorseman.com/
Have a look at its progress in 2006 ! And 2018 !

PH-TCB is a Douglas C-47A and the way it is displayed here, it comprises 2 Douglas DC-3s really.... To restore PH-PBA (c/n 19434) to airworthiness, the wings, tailsection and undercarriage were exchanged with those of c/n 9836 (PH-TCB).
Also rumored to be a restoration involving 3 DC-3s! Coert Munk suggested that the cockpit might be of ex-Pyramid Airlines N486F (c/n 20214), reported derelict at Malaga in 1995. That airframe (ex/ 43-15748, NC63104) was scrapped at some point and the forward fuselage and went to the Netherlands. But that cockpit section was used Oct-Nov18 in a sandsculpture @Katwijk, the owner Ed Radstake has it stored in Babberich with his a privat collection.

The history of c/n 9836 is: USAAF 42-23974, RAF FD938, SAAF 6867 (35 Sq), reregistered ZS-NJE, rereg'd 14Jun94 G-BVOL (reg cancelled 16May96) and painted as PH-TCB. Upon initial preservation it was clear that restoration to airworthiness was unfeasable, but by donating parts to PH-PBA and its present display at the Aviodrome it has more than served its purpose in terms of preservation and history.
(The serial number of an aircraft remains with the fuselage - therefore the aircraft on display
at Lelystad is Douglas C-47A c/n 9836 and no other.)

The name 'Iwan.W.Smirnoff' (I don't understand the dot on Iwan.) does honour to his prestige with KLM.
Anne Robertson has written an excellent biography about Iwan Smirnoff, the Dutch title would translate to "A Life of Adventure"; it deals with the early days of aviation. His life is best described as "truth is stranger than fiction..." He was Russia's 4th highest Ace in WW1 (shot down 11 German aircraft), deserted to save his life, ended up in Europe and while seeking work in various countries ended up in the Netherlands with KLM (became naturalised as a Dutch citizen) and was shot down flying DC-3 PK-AFV of the KNILM (Netherlands East Indies KLM) by 3 Japanes Zeros in 1942, was wounded but managed to get the aircraft on the ground, was rescued and managed to loose a shipment of diamonds (worth some £300,000) in the process.
From Australia he went to the USA (for KLM), continued to serve KLM after WW2 and died at Mallorca in 1956. Fascinating character.

Dan Morgan wrote me in Jan.2006: "I have just visited your website and was astonished to see this aircraft discussed. I have a photograph of the aircraft (and the rest of the Botswana National Airways fleet) which may be of interest to you. The airline was owned by my father, David Morgan, before it was nationalised by the Botswana Government in 1969-70 (it was then known as Air Botswana). Following nationalisation the aircraft that were in South Africa at the time were seized and, I imagine, were subsequently sold off. I do remember they sat on the other side of the tarmac at Jan Smuts airport (now Johannesburg International) for quite some time afterwards.
You may be interested to know the aircraft was used to carry oil to Zambia after UDI in Rhodesia and at one time even transported a baby African elephant (I was there and I can tell you it was a long and difficult task to get the animal on board!).."
Thanks Dan !
And here is more on Dan's Air Botswana story...! And more on Guestphotos page 19

For more photos see the ones I made during the DC-3 Fly In at Lelystad, in May 2006