what is it?
The Fokker D.VII is a German World War I fighter aircraft designed by Reinhold Platz of the Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. Germany produced around 3,300 D.VII aircraft in the second half of 1918. In service with the Luftstreitkräfte, the D.VII quickly proved itself to be a formidable aircraft.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 8.9 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 108 years ago, in 1918.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1918-01
- number built
- 1,700
- role
- fighter
- makers
- Fokker
- engines
- 1× Mercedes D.III / BMW IIIa
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 1
- length
- 7 m
- wingspan
- 8.9 m
- height
- 2.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 906 kg
- top speed
- 189 km/h
- range
- 266 km
- ceiling
- 6,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q165158, Wikipedia: Fokker D.VII (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.