what is it?
The Fokker D.XI was a 1920s Dutch single-seat fighter designed and built by Fokker
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11.7 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 103 years ago, in 1923.
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11.7 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
- 1923
- number built
- 117
- role
- single-seat fighter
- makers
- Fokker
- engines
- 1× Hispano-Suiza 8 Fb 8-cylinder Vee piston engine / Hispano-Suiza 8Fb
- crew
- 1
- length
- 7.5 m
- wingspan
- 11.7 m
- height
- 3.2 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,250 kg
- top speed
- 225 km/h
- range
- 440 km
- ceiling
- 7,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1193133, Wikipedia: Fokker D.XI (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.