The Aviation Historian — Issue 21 (October 2017)

110 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21

INDONESIA’S

FLEDGLING

INSECTS

Today, Indonesia is renowned as a world-class

manufacturer of military and civil aircraft designed

elsewhere; much less well-known is the work of

the nation’s own thriving — if modest — aircraft

design bureau, established in the wake of its

independence in 1949–50. NICK STROUD

explores the career of the homegrown

pioneer who forged it, and the series of

types it built over the next two decades

ALL PHOTOGRAPHS BY HOWARD LEVY