| World Air Forces |
Netherlands
Naval Aviation
Orders of Battle:
| 1914-1918 | The First World War | |
| 1917 | MLD Established | |
| 26 April 1918 | Guarding Neutrality | |
| 1919-1939 | The Inter-War Years | |
| late 1920s | Expansion in the NEI | |
| 1930s | New equipment arrives | |
| 1939-1945 | The Second World War | |
| September 1939 | Neutrality Patrols Again | |
| May 1940 | Germany Invades the Netherlands | |
| December 1941 | Japan Attacks the NEI | |
| January 1942 | The Battle for the NEI | |
| October 1944 | Netherlands Liberated | |
| 1945-1990 | The Cold War | |
| August 1945 | NEI Liberated | |
| 1947 | Indonesian War of Independence | |
| 1 January 1950 | The Fifties | |
| 1 January 1955 | First helicopters | |
| 1 January 1960 | Jet Fighters in Service | |
| March 1962 | S-2 Tracker Enters Service | |
| 1 January 1965 | Agusta UH-1 Enters Service | |
| November 1967 | The Wasp Enters Service | |
| 1 January 1970 | The Atlantic Enters Service | |
| 1971 | The Seventies | |
| 1974 | Drawdown of Trackers Nearly Complete | |
| 1 January 1978 | The Lynx Arrives | |
| 1979 | The Eighties | |
| 1982 | The P-3 Orion Arrives | |
| 1988 | The Eighties | |
| 1990 | The Nineties | |
| 1991+ | End of the Cold War | |
| August 1992 | Group Organisation Introduced | |
| September 1996 | Lynx Upgrade Complete | |
| 1999 | The Kosovo War? | |
| 2002 | Downsizing? | |
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