The Legal Status of Aircraft: Proefschrift ter Verkrijging van de Graad van Doctor in de Rechtsgeleerdheid aan de Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, op Gezag van de Rector Magnificus Dr A. E. van Arkel, Hoogleraar in de Faculteit der Wis- en Natuurkunde, Tegen

I . Historical survey The legal status of aircraft is a problem that has given rise to innumerable questions ever since the earliest years of aviation. But the majority of these questions only relate to certain aspects of the legal status of aircraft, and the problem as a whole has hardly been studied at all. The evolutionary process in the study of a number of facets of the problem is outlined below. Nationality The question of the nationality of aircraft has always received a lot of atten...