page_title: Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force
section_title: 1936–1950
hierarchical_section_title: Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force / Aircraft / 1936–1950
caption_attribution_description: Catalog #: 00019167 Manufacturer: Brewster Designation: F2A Official Nickname: Buffalo Notes: Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
context_page_description: The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force was the air arm of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army in the Dutch East Indies from 1939 until 1950. It was an entirely separate organisation from the Royal Netherlands Air Force.
  The unit was founded in 1915 as the "Test Flight Service". In 1921 it became the "Aviation Service", before finally receiving the designation of ML-KNIL on 30 March 1939. In 1950, following Dutch recognition of Indonesian independence, its bases and facilities were handed over to the Indonesian Air Force.
context_section_description: Brewster B-339C/D (export Brewster Buffalo)
  Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann
  Commonwealth CA-6 Wackett
  Consolidated Model 28-5MN
  Consolidated Model 28-5AMN
  Curtiss P-40E/N Kittyhawk
  Curtiss Model 75A-7 (export P-36 Hawk)
  Curtiss-Wright CW-21B
  Curtiss-Wright CW-22 Falcon
  Douglas C-47 Dakota
  Dornier Do 24K
  Douglas C-54 Skymaster
  Douglas DC-3
  Fairchild F-24R-9
  Glenn Martin 139/166 (export B-10)
  Hawker Hurricane IIb
  Mitsubishi Ki-57 "Topsy"
  Koolhoven F.K.51
  Lockheed 212
  Lockheed 12
  Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar
  Lockheed C60 Lodestar
  Messerschmitt Bf 108B-1
  North American P-51 MustangD/K)
  Noorduyn Norseman
  North American AT-16 Harvard
  North American B-25 MitchellC/D/J
  Piper J-4E
  Piper L-4J
  Ryan STM-2
  Taylorcraft L-2 Grasshopper
  Tiger Moth
  Waco EGC-7
  Waco UKC
caption: ML-KNIL Brewster F2A Buffalo fighters
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