Fokker F.II
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The Fokker F.II was the first of a long series of commercial aircraft from the Fokker Aircraft Company, flying in 1919. In a biplane age, it presented a distinct clean, high-wing monoplane style that sold successfully across Europe and North America during the development of commercial passenger-carrying aviation.
F.II | |
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Role | Airliner |
Manufacturer | Fokker |
Designer | Reinhold Platz |
First flight | October 1919 |
Retired | 1934 |
Primary users | Deutsche Aero Lloyd Deutsche Luft Hansa, KLM |
Number built | about 23 |
Variants | Fokker F.III |
This design lead to the Fokker F.III which also proved a commercial success. A license produced version was built in Germany, with some modification is sometimes called the Fokker-Grulich F.II
A non-flying replica of a Fokker F.II was built for the Dutch airline KLM, and is displayed at Aviodrome Museum at Lelystad in the Netherlands in the present day.