The Archive · 1938

German Flying Boats

Amsterdam, Feb. 25.

The Netherlands Defence Ministry ordered eight Dornier flying boats at the aeroplane works of Aviolanda and Schelde, These machines will be built under patent license and are intended as scout machines and bomb droppers in the Netherlands Indies service.

This type has been specially evolu ved by the Dornier works to meet Netherlands East Indies needs. Altogether 24 more machines of the same type were ordered from the Dornier works at Friedrichshafen four of which have already been delivered.—Trans-Ocean.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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