The FK.52 was proposed as a replacement for the Fokker C.Vs of the Luchtvaartafdeling (LVA), the Dutch Army Air Force.

During the Winter War, two Koolhovens were purchased by the Swedish count Carl Gustav von Rosen and given to the Finnish Air Force.

Both aircraft were destroyed during the Continuation War, KO-130 became lost during a leaflet-dropping mission over Hanko and made a forced-landing 80 km south of Tallinn, Estonia on August 16, 1941.

Estonian Forest brothers guerrillas burned the plane and buried the crew in Velise.

The nickname of the plane was Kolho, "clumsy" Data from Syöksypommittajat[2]General characteristics Performance Armament