OO-AIE  SABCA-Fokker F.VIIb-3m                   (c/n  unknown)

                            

                                   Work horse of the SABENA fleet in the late 1920s early 1930s, was the Fokker F.VIIb
                                   of the three engined variety.  Except for the first one, OO-AID, which was Fokker-built
                                   in Holland, the rest were all manufactured under licence in Belgium by Sociétés Anonyme
                                   Belge de Constructions Aéronautiques (SABCA), an aerospace company founded in
                                   1920, and which still exists today.  This Sabena shot shows -AIE being refueled, circa
                                   1931 (the year I was born).  SABCA may have levied constructors numbers on these
                                   aircraft, but if they did, such data is lost in the iniquities of time.   OO-AIE crashed on
                                   approach to Dortmund on 22 December 1933.in unknown circumstances.  Although
                                   there were no casualties, the aircraft was written off.