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1900-1913
Almost a month before Bleriot completed his first historic flight over the English Chanel, the first flight over Holland took place.
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1919
The ELTA Aviation Exibition in Amsterdam was official opened at 1 august. It was a resounding succes for Albert Plesman.
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1920
Pilot Jerry Shaw brought a small bundle newspapers from London to Amsterdam and opens KLM's first services to London and Hamburg
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1921
The re-opening of the service to London and Hamburg was attended by Prince Hendrik of the Netherlands.
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1922
By the end of 1922, KLM had flown one million accident-free kilometers and was flying in winter, but still not on sundays
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1923
KLM flew summer and winter. The full year services were applied with regularity and security that the Dutch aviation would give his excellent reputation abroad
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1924
The KLM called itself "Royal Dutch Airlines for the Netherlands and its colonies". Great plan?
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1925
In this year
KLM took the icy plunge...a winter service with heated cabins
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1926
KLM regularly added new destinations to its network
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1927
Van Lear Black came from Baltimore, via London, to the Low Countries. He came to fly...to Batavia
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1928
The six experimental journeys of this year to Batavia took 12 days each, with 9 flying hours per day
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1929
KLM was encouraged to commence regular but experimental scheduled services..
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1930
On september 25 1930 finally the moment was there to start a regular two-weekly service to the East-Indies
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1931
By now, KLM offered a weekly service to Batavia. The first flight for KLM was on 5 March 1931.
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1932
The F-XVIII was introduced in 1932. This Fokker whittled down the travelling time to Batavia to nine days
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1933
During a special Christmas flight, Captain Iwan Smirnoff flying the Fokker F-XVIII 'Pelican', set a new record
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1934
Albert Plesman entered the first KLM DC-2, the 'Stork', for the great London-to-Melbourne race, which was to be held in the autumn of 1934
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1935
On May 23, 1935 the first official Indië-flight in a Douglas DC2 was flight 238 with PH-AKK “Koetilang”. It left Schiphol with 325kg mail.
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1936
In 1936, the DC-2 was succeeded by the DC-3 for flights to the Orient
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1937
In this year flightfrequentcy increased to three flights a week
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1938
KLM introduced mail- and passengerservices directly to Australia
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1939
As the 1930s drew to a close, the era of the 'great flights' came to an end in a turmoil world
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1940
The bombardment of Schiphol Airport brought KLM services to an abrupt end
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