what is it?
The Fokker D.XIII was a fighter aircraft produced in the Netherlands in the mid-1920s. It was a development of the Fokker D.XI with a new powerplant and considerably refined aerodynamics, and had been designed to meet the requirements of the clandestine flying school operated by the German Army at Lipetsk in the Soviet Union. Like its predecessor, it was a conventional single-bay sesquiplane with staggered wings braced by V-struts.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · biplane · 11 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 102 years ago, in 1924.
- Top speed is 2.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11 m: about 2 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
- 1924-09-12
- number built
- 50
- role
- fighter
- origin
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- makers
- Fokker
- engines
- 1× Napier Lion XI / Napier Lion
- length
- 7.9 m
- wingspan
- 11 m
- height
- 2.9 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,650 kg
- top speed
- 270 km/h
- range
- 600 km
- ceiling
- 8,000 m
- wings
- biplane
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1435240, Wikipedia: Fokker D.XIII (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.