HB-AMI   Koolhoven FK 50                                     (c/n 5001)

                            

                                  Only three Koolhoven FK 50 machines were built, specifically for Alpar Luftverkehrs AG
                                  of Berne Switzerland.  The first, seen above was HB-AMI, delivered in the fall of 1935.
                                  They were used on Swiss domestic services to Basel and Zurich, and later to Lyons and
                                  as far as Marseilles.   The engine nacelles were initially rather large, bulging NACA cowlings
                                  but these were streamlined later, as seen in the above shot from the John Stroud collection.
                                  The second FK 50 (HB-AMO) was lost in a crash in September 1937, sadly with the loss
                                  of three lives.   FK 50 No 3 (HB- AMA) was unique in that it had twin fines and rudders.
                                  It (oddly) was sold in Liberia as EL-ADV in 1947.    Both HB-AMA and -AMI survived
                                  WW II and were seen at both Paris Orly and London Croydon several times during 1946,
                                  HB-AMI being scrapped shortly after.