Fokker 70

what is it?

The Fokker 70 is a narrow-body, twin-engined, medium-range, turbofan regional airliner designed and produced by the now defunct Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker. It was developed during the early 1990s as a smaller version of the newly-developed Fokker 100. Both the Fokker 70 and Fokker 100 were preceded by the first jet airliner manufactured by the company, the Fokker F28 Fellowship.

🔎How to recognise it: 2 jet engines · low wing · retractable tricycle gear · 28.1 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 845 km/hcruise speed
• range 3,410 kmwithout refuelling
• seats 32passengers
• size 39.9 tmax take-off weight
• built 48made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 33 years ago, in 1993.
• 🚗Wingspan of 28.1 m: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🐘Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 🌍Range of 3,410 km: 19× Amsterdam to Brussels.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.2× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.

spec sheet

first flight

1993-04-04

introduced

1994

status

still flying

number built

48

role

regional jet

origin

🇳🇱 Netherlands

makers

Fokker

engines

2× Rolls-Royce Tay 620 / Rolls-Royce RB.183 Tay

passengers

32

length

30.9 m

wingspan

28.1 m

height

8.5 m

max take-off weight

39.9 t

top speed

—

cruise speed

845 km/h

range

3,410 km

ceiling

11,000 m

wings

low wing

landing gear

retractable tricycle gear

ICAO code

F70

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.