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In 1923, Jean Stampe and Maurice Vertongen decided establish a flying school at the newly opened airport of Antwerp, with the aim of giving future pilots better training and preparation than the one they themselves received during the First World War.

Not satisfied with the available aircraft types, they decided to build and commercialise their own designs. This was done with the help of engineer Alfred Renard and resulted in a range of RSV aircraft. When Renard decided to form his own company, Georges Ivanow - a Russian immigrant - joined the team. He designed several types that were given the designation SV, of which the SV-4 is the most famous and appreciated. This design, which is now more than 90 years old, is still popular with vintage aircraft enthusiasts and has an impressive track record.


In 1995, Karel Bos and Danny Cabooter, both pilot and owner of a Stampe SV-4, decided founded the Stampe en Vertongen Museum with the aim of preserving the Belgian aviation heritage and keeping alive the memory of the most successful Belgian aircraft manufacturers.

By means of aircraft, photos and other didactic material from the archives of our members and the Aviation Society of Antwerp, we give an anthology of aviation in Antwerp and try to recreate the atmosphere of the pioneers.


The Stampe en Vertongen Museum is managed and maintained by a team of enthusiastic and motivated volunteers, who all wish to spread their passion for aviation and make it available to a wide audience.

Antwerp 1923 : Jean Stampe and Maurice Vertongen, the founders of the “Ecole d'Aviation Anvers” and the Stampe-Vertongen Aircraft Factories.

Antwerp 2013 : Karel Bos and Danny Cabooter, founders and inspirers of the Stampe en Vertongen Museum.

Once upon a time ...


In 1903, the Wright brothers made their first air jumps with their own designed aircraft. In 1909, the newly founded “Aéroclub d'Anvers” organised a competition for manned balloons and in the same year they organised the “First Flying Week of Antwerp”.

And so, barely a hundred years ago, Antwerp's aviation history began....

When reading the history of aviation in Antwerp, it soon becomes clear that Baron de Caters, Jan Olieslagers and Jules Tyck were the pioneers and lay at the basis of the flourishing of aviation in Antwerp.

It was Jan Olieslagers who, in 1921, convinced the mayor and aldermen that aviation had an enormous future and that Antwerp should play a role in it. The result of his pleas was that in 1923 an airfield was opened on the outskirts of the metropolis. Here Jean Stampe and Maurice Vertongen founded their flying school and aircraft factory. Ever since, “Deurne” has been synonymous with aviation in the city.

As a transport facility, Antwerp airport is a place where the businessman can take his scheduled flight or air taxi, indispensable for the buzzing activity that characterizes the metropolis and its port.

However, the history of this airport has not always been rosy.

After the Second World War, the demand to close the airport was almost granted. But there have always been many who stood up for conservation and we count ourselves among them. The tide now seems to have turned and the airport can no longer be ignored as a service for Antwerp's trade and industry.

What follows is a selection of the available material.

For the elderly it will make part of the past a reality again, for the young it will be a confrontation with a time when flying was not as obvious as it is now...


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