An item reported that the Royal Netherlands Navy ordered 4 float planes at the Fairey Aviation Company in England for the new cruisers.(1)
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1. For the Dutch East Indies were 4 floatplanes Fairey IIID bought. The Dutch cruisers were the Hr. Ms. Java (1916-1942) and Sumatra (1916-1944), both of the Java-class light cruisers.
