KLM Boeing 777-200 "Albert Plesman" (PH-BQA).
The PH-BQA photographed just before landing on the Zwanenburg runway.
Albert Plesman, born in The Hague on September 7, 1889 was a Dutch aviation pioneer and the first president and CEO of KLM.
Plesman was co-organizer of the First Air Traffic Exhibition Amsterdam, which was held from August 1 to September 14, 1919. Exhibition halls had been built for the occasion, which were put into use by Anthony Fokker after the event, for his newly established Nederlandsche Vliegtuigenfabriek, later Fokker, in Amsterdam-North.
All these activities led on 7 October 1919 to the establishment of the N.V. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij voor Nederland en Koloniën (KLM), of which Plesman became first administrator and later director. After World War II, Plesman was appointed president and CEO of KLM. After recovering from the damage caused by the war, the company became an airline of great stature under his leadership.
Plesman died in 1953 in his hometown.
This photo was taken on April 5, 2014.
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