KLM Boeing 777-200 "Albert Plesman" (PH-BQA).
The PH-BQA photographed after landing at Polderbaan.
Albert Plesman, born in The Hague on 7 September 1889, was a Dutch aviation pioneer and the first chief executive officer of KLM.
Plesman was co-organiser of the First Air Traffic Exhibition Amsterdam held from 1 August to 14 September 1919. Exhibition halls had been built for the occasion, which were put into use after the event by Anthony Fokker, for his newly founded Nederlandsche Vliegtuigenfabriek, later Fokker, in Amsterdam-Noord.
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 managing director. After World War II, Plesman was appointed president-director of KLM. After repairing the damage caused by the war, the company became an airline of great stature under his leadership.
Plesman died in his hometown in 1953.
This photo was taken on 16 July 2023.
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