ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 54247
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| Date: | Friday 10 May 1940 |
| Time: | 04:30 |
| Type: | de Havilland DH.90 Dragonfly |
| Owner/operator: | Luchtvaartafdeeling (LVA) |
| Registration: | 962 |
| MSN: | 7539 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Ypenburg AFB, Leidschenveen-Ypenburg, Zuid-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Taxi |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Ypenburg AFB, Leidschenveen-Ypenburg, Zuid-Holland |
c/no 7539 (Gipsy Major #8737/8738) To Royal Dutch Shell, Netherlands with C of A 5705 issued 9.11.36. Registered as PH-KOK [C of R 236] 11.11.36 to J.E.F.de Kok, Ypenburg (the General Manager/Chief of Royal Dutch Shell). Re-registered PH-ATK [C of R 325] 4.7.38 to same owner. Impressed into Luchtvaartafdeeling (LVA) 1.9.39 and serialled 962. Operated as personal aircraft of Commandant Veldleger of I-2 LvR, later V-2 LvR (pilot Kaptain W.H. Wijnkamp). Flown from Soesterberg to Ypenburg 7.5.40 and captured by Germans at Ypenburg 10.5.40.
Damaged and/or Destroyed 10.5.40 due to enemy action whilst parked at Ypenburg AFB, Leidschenveen-Ypenburg, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. According to a rough translation from Dutch into English of a published account (see link #3):
"The device was captured intact at Ypenburg". [by enemy forces]. "Some citizens saw opportunity start a motor and taxi it against obstacles where the right wing was damaged. After this, access for citizens was forbidden".
Former civil registration PH-KOK was cancelled 4.7.41
NOTE:Some published sources state that the aircraft was not destroyed, but captured by Nazi forces, and shipped back to Germany in its damaged condition, quote: "captured by Germans at Ypenburg 10.5.40 but with damaged starboard wings and tail; later noted on a barge". Although no German civil Dragonflies are known, it was reported (in Hans-Werner Lerche's "Luftwaffe Test Pilot" - Jane's 1980) that at least one was operated by the Luftwaffe as RP+MY at the Rechlin test establishment; however, this is likely to have actually been a DH.89. If it WAS a DH.90, then it was one of three possible candidates:
1: c/no. 7542, ex-F-APFK, A DH.90 which was reportedly based at Orio al Serio, Bergamo, Italy in 1943-45
2: c/no. 7552, ex-Haerens Flyvertropper (Danish Army AF) as S-24, captured in Denmark in 1940
3: c/no. 7539, ex-962/PH-KOK captured at Ypenburg 10.5.40 as per the above
Sources:
1. http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1940%20sec_tcm5-7281.pdf
2. http://www.waroverholland.nl/index.php?page=the-airlandings-around-the-hague-ypenburg
3. http://www.hdekker.info/registermap/TWEEDE.htm
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p075.html
5. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH90.pdf
6. https://ipms.nl/artikelen/nedmil-luchtvaart/vliegtuigen-d/vliegtuigen-d-dehavil-dh89-2
7. https://www.orpheusweb.co.uk/vicsmith/OldAccs/May40.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 21-Mar-2010 14:06 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Other fatalities] |
| 04-Feb-2018 22:57 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Jun-2022 03:49 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 13-Jun-2022 00:27 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 15-Nov-2022 18:28 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
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