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PH-AGQ's history, colors and modifications
September
24, 1929
First owner: A.L.J. Hoevels
Colors:
The registration is in the same color as the fuselage
upper halve. In the photographs this color is
a very pale grey, but since a registration has
to be recognizable, it must have been a somewhat
dark color. Blue and orange are possibilites.
Blue can be close to white on panchromatic photographs.
Depending on the light, orange can be very light
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September
20, 1930
Second owner: N.V. Lever Zeep Mij. (Unilever)
Modifications:
- navigation light added to fin;
- Sunlight Soap logo on fuselage sides;
- wheel covers painted, hiding the Palmer Aerotyre's
texts.
Colors:
Since the Sunlight Soap colors have always been
red and blue, the logo on the fuselage would have
been red if the upper halve of the fuselage would
have been blue. This is not the case, because
if the logo was red, it would have been black
on these orthochromatic photographs. That leaves
orange as the most likely color.
After I made this conclusion I received a scan
of one of the flyers dropped by PH-AGQ. It was
of poor quality, the orange of the upper halve
was faded, but nevertheless it was there. The
orange is also confirmed by the N.L.S. poster
below, eventhough it is an 'artist impression'. |
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January 16, 1932
Third owner: N.L.S.
Modifications:
- navigation lights added to wing tips;
- air intake added on top of the cowling;
- top of the wing painted orange;
- registration painted black;
- text "Nationale Luchtvaartschool Holland"
in black on fuselage sides.
- Dutch flag on rudder as in last photograph.*
* The photographs of PH-AGQ in its first N.L.S.
livery don't show the tailplanes, but since it
was standard for N.L.S. aircraft, it is most likely
the Dutch flag was added to the rudder at this
point. |
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Modifications:
- single exhaust replaced by four pipes;
- small changes to cowling;
- top of the wing seems to be silver again.
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Second N.L.S. livery
Modifications:
- engine replaced by other type;
- nose/cowling modified;
- top and bottom colors of fuselage switched.
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June 28, 1937
Crashed in Princenhage, The Netherlands.
July 7, 1937
Removed from the register. |
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Photographs from the archives of Bob
Dros, Giesbert
Oskam and Thijs
Postma.