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Type: Fokker F27 Mk 400M Troopship two/ three crew utility transport.
Max Speed: 298 mph at 20,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 1,620 ft per min.
Service Ceiling 30,000 ft.
range: 1,375 miles.
Payload: 46 paratroops, or 24 litters plus nine attendants, or 13,283 lb of freight.
Photo: M. Rostaing

 
This F-21 Mk 300 of the Dutch air force is used for paratrooping and freighting.

 

Type: Fokker F.27 Maritime eight/nine seat maritime surveillance.
Max Speed: was 289 mph at 20,015 ft.
Climb Rate: 1,450 ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 29,530 ft.
Range: 3,107 miles.
Armament: none.
Photo: B Thouanel
The Spanish air force operates three examples of the F.27 Maritime for the coastal patrol and search and rescure roles.

 

Type: Fokker s.11 Instructor  two/ threeeat primary trainer.
Max Speed: 130 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 9,845 ft in 17 minutes 0 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 13,125 ft.
Range: 432 miles.
Armament: none
Photo: B Thouanel
Designed for the initial training of military pilots, the S.11 Instructor was a considerable commercial success for the Fokker company during its rebirth after the Second World War.

 
Type: Fokker F27 T.IX four/five seat medium bomber prototype.
Max Speed: 273 mph at optimum altitude.
Climb Rate: ??? ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 26,245 ft.
Range: 1,690 miles.
Armament: (proposed) one 20-mm trainable cannon in the nose turret and two 0.5-in (12.7-mm) trainable machine guns in the dorsal and ventral position , and up to 4,409 lb of bombs.
Photo: Musee de Air
The T.IX was a promising type and well up to the standards of medium bombers elsewhere in the world, but its development came to late for the type to be put into production before the defeat of the Netherlands in May 1940.

 

Type: Fokker C. VIII-W three seat torpedo and reconnaissance bomber floatplane.
Max Speed: 121 mph at optimum altitude.
Climb Rate: ??? ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 14,110 ft.
Range: 559 miles.
Armament: two or three 0.31-in (7.9-mm) machine guns and provision for one torpedo or bombs.
Photo: Musee de Air
This is the first of nine C.VIII-Ws. Note the tandem arrangement of three separate cockpits.

 

Type: Fokker C. VIII-Wg three seat torpedo and reconnaissance bomber floatplane.
Max Speed: was 177 mph at 9,845 ft.
Climb Rate: ??? ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 22,310 ft
Range: 1,709 miles.
Armament: one fixed and one trainable 0.31-in (7.9-mm) machine guns and one torpedo or up to 1,334 of bombs.
Photo: Musee de Air
Seen in the form of the first example, the T.VIII-W served in larger numbers with the German air force than with the Dutch.

 

Type: Fokker D.XXI  single seat fighter.
Max Speed: 286 mph at 14,500 ft.
Climb Rate: 26,245 ft 12 minutes 36 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 36,090 ft.
Range: 590 miles.
Armament: four 0.31-in (7.9-mm) machine guns.
Photo: Musee de Air
Despite its obsolescent configuration, the D.XXI proved itself a capable destroyer of German and Soviet bombers in the Dutch and Finnish hands respectively. this is a Dutch example.

 

Type: Fokker T.IVA four seat reconnaissance bomber and torpedo bomber floatplane.
Max Speed: was 162 mph at 2,625 ft.
Climb Rate: 3,280 ft 3 minutes 6 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 19,360 ft.
Range: 970 miles.
Armament: three 0.31-in (7.9-mm) trainable machine guns, and one torpedo or up to 1,764 lb of bombs.
Photo: Musee de Air
This is the first T.IVA, an unaesthetic type whose angular fuselage and apparently clumsy arrangement of float struts belied its great reliability and excellent handling characterities on the water.

 

Type: Fokker D.XIII fighter. 
Max Speed: 168 mph at optimum altitude.
Climb Rate: 3,280 ft in 1 minute 42 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 26,245 ft.
Range: 373 miles.
Armament: two 0.303-in (7.7-mm) machine guns.
Photo: Musee de Air
The D.XIII was used without markings as a fighter trainer at Germany's secret training base in the USSR.

 

Type: Fokker G.IA three seat heavy fighter and close support plane.
Max Speed: 295 mph at 9,020 ft.
Climb Rate: 16,405 ft in 8 minutes 0 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 30,500 ft.
Range: 870 miles.
Armament: two or three 0.31-in (7.9-mm) machine guns and provision for one torpedo or bombs.
Photo: Musee de Air
Potentially a useful multi role fighter, the G.IA could not even begin to prove itself against the overwhelming air strength brought against it in 1940.

 

 

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