Fokker
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Aircraft Types
Fokker D.XXI
The Fokker D.XXI was a Dutch single-seat fighter designed by Fokker in 1935 for the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force: an inexpensive, rugged monoplane of welded steel tube, fabric and wood with a fixed undercarriage and a Bristol Mercury radial. The Netherlands ordered 36, and the type was also built under licence in Finland — its largest operator — and in Denmark. Already obsolescent in 1939, it fought in Finnish hands through the Winter War and the Continuation War, in which the Finnish Air Force credited it with 191 victories, and it was the only relatively modern fighter the Netherlands could field against the German invasion of May 1940. Finland retired the last examples in 1949; one complete original, FR-110, survives at the Finnish Air Force Museum, and a faithful replica flies in the Netherlands.
Fokker D.XXIII
The Fokker D.XXIII was a Dutch single-seat fighter prototype whose two engines sat in tandem in the fuselage, one driving a tractor propeller ahead of the cockpit and the other a pusher propeller behind it, so that an engine failure could not drag the aircraft sideways. Designed by Marius Beeling, it first flew on 30 May 1939. Rear-engine cooling problems dominated a short test programme of eleven flights; the undercarriage was damaged in April 1940 and the programme was abandoned when Germany invaded that May. The sole prototype was captured and scrapped in 1941.
Fokker G.I
The Fokker G.I was a Dutch twin-engined, twin-boom heavy fighter, designed in secret by Fokker as a multirole jachtkruiser (air cruiser) and first flown on 16 March 1937. Shown at the Paris Air Show before it flew, it equipped two Dutch fighter units and fought in the German invasion of May 1940, in which most of the fleet was destroyed on the ground; captured aircraft later trained Luftwaffe Bf 110 crews. Sixty-two production aircraft were built, in Mercury and Wasp variants. No original survives; a replica is displayed at the Nationaal Militair Museum.