what is it?
The Fokker CXIV-W was a reconnaissance seaplane produced in the Netherlands in the 1930s. It was a conventional, single-bay biplane with staggered wings of unequal span braced by N-struts. The pilot and observer sat in tandem, open cockpits, and the undercarriage consisted of twin pontoons.
How to recognise it: 1 engine · 12 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 89 years ago, in 1937.
- Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 12 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1937
- number built
- 24
- role
- reconnaissance seaplane
- makers
- Fokker
- engines
- 1× Wright R-975-E3
- length
- 9.5 m
- wingspan
- 12 m
- height
- 4.2 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,950 kg
- top speed
- 230 km/h
- cruise speed
- 177 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 4,801 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2023387, Wikipedia: Fokker C.XIV (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.