what is it?
The Fokker D.II was a biplane fighter designed by the Fokker Aircraft Company (Fokker-Flugzeugwerke) during the First World War for the Imperial German Army's (Deutsches Heer) Imperial German Air Service (Fliegertruppen des deutschen Kaiserreiches) and the Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops (Kaiserliche und Königliche Luftfahrtruppen or K.u.K. Luftfahrtruppen) of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Two prototypes designated by the factory as the M.17 were built in different configurations before the third one was accepted for production as the D.II. The Imperial German Air Service purchased 181 D.IIs, excluding the prototypes.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · biplane · 8.8 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 110 years ago, in 1916.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1916
- number built
- 177
- role
- fighter
- origin
- German Reich
- makers
- Fokker
- engines
- 1× Oberursel U.I rotary / Oberursel U.I / Oberursel U.0
- length
- 6.4 m
- wingspan
- 8.8 m
- height
- 2.6 m
- max take-off weight
- 575 kg
- top speed
- 150 km/h
- range
- 200 km
- ceiling
- 4,000 m
- wings
- biplane
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2469184, Wikipedia: Fokker D.II (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.