Date:	Monday 26 January 1942
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide
Owner/operator:	KNILM
Registration:	PK-AKV
MSN:	6292
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Minor
Location:	Penfui airfield, Koepang, Timor -   Indonesia
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	Passenger
Departure airport:	Penfui Airfield, Koepang, Timor (KOE/WATT)
Destination airport:	Andir, Bandoeng, West Java

Narrative:
Aircraft operated by KNILM [Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij] in Dutch East Indies. Leased by Servicos Aereas da Colonia Portuguesa da Timor to operate scheduled air service between Dili and Koepang from 1939-1940, through to January 1942.

Damaged by Japanese fighters which strafed the Penfui airfield at Koepang. PK-AKV patched up and flown to the KNILM base at Andir, Java. The aircraft was found to have more damage than first found, and was scrapped at Andir on 8 March 1942 before the Japanese arrived, in order to prevent the aircraft from falling into enemy hands

El Tari Airport (IATA: KOE, ICAO: WATT) — formerly Penfui Airport — is a domestic airport in Kupang on the island of Timor in the province of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The airport is named after El Tari (1926–1978), the governor of East Nusa Tenggara from 1966 to 1978. The airport's ICAO code was changed from WRKK to WATT in 2004.

1. Robert Lee, 2000, Crisis in a Backwater 1941 in Portuguese Timor, in Lusotopia 2000 pp.175-189
2. The Aviation Historian, Issue 33, October 2020 pp.6-7
3. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
4. www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?27841-de-Havilland-Dragon-Rapide-destroyed-Jan-26th-1942-Penfui-Koepang-Timor
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p062.html
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_PH-.html
7. https://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_PK-.html
8. https://thejavagoldblog.wordpress.com/background-info-book-1/airlines/knilm-the-airline-of-the-dutch-east-indies/knilm-fleet-list/
9. https://onespotter.com/aircraft/fid/290848/PK-AKV
10. http://aerobernie.bplaced.net/KNILM.html
11. https://da.flightsim.to/file/20940/de-havilland-dh-89-dragon-rapide-pk-akv-knilm
12. https://www.tracesofwar.nl/articles/6262/de-Havilland-DH89-Dominie.htm (Dutch text)
13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Tari_Airport
14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupang

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-Dec-2021 00:00	Ron Averes	Added
13-Dec-2021 02:36	Ron Averes	Updated [Source, ]
04-Jan-2022 04:18	Ron Averes	Updated [Date, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Damage, Narrative, ]
04-Jan-2022 04:44	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, Departure airport, ]
09-Jun-2022 04:56	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, Departure airport, ]
02-Jul-2023 19:48	Ron Averes	Updated
16-Mar-2025 22:57	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Total occupants, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category, ]