what is it?
The Fokker C.XI-W was a reconnaissance seaplane designed to operate from warships that was produced in the Netherlands in the mid-1930s. It was the result of a Royal Netherlands Navy specification of 1935 requesting such an aircraft. Fokker's response was a conventional single-bay biplane with staggered wings of unequal span braced by N-struts.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 13 m wingspan
base stats
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 91 years ago, in 1935.
- Top speed is 2.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 13 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1935-07-20
- number built
- 15
- role
- reconnaissance seaplane
- origin
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- makers
- Fokker
- engines
- 1× Wright R-1820-F25 / R-1820
- length
- 10.4 m
- wingspan
- 13 m
- height
- 4.5 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,550 kg
- top speed
- 280 km/h
- cruise speed
- 240 km/h
- range
- 670 km
- ceiling
- 6,400 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2436268, Wikipedia: Fokker C.XI-W (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.