Fokker F-10

what is it?

The Fokker F-10 was an enlarged development of the Fokker F.VII airliner, built in the late 1920s by the Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America. It was a trimotor passenger aircraft, and it carried 12 passengers. This was four more than the F.VII it was based on, and it had a larger wing and more powerful engines than that design.

🔎How to recognise it: 3 piston engines with propellers · fixed tailwheel (taildragger) · 21.7 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 225 km/htop speed
• seats 12passengers
• size 5,216 kgmax take-off weight
• built 65made in total

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 99 years ago, in 1927.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 21.7 m: about 5 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

1927

introduced

1927

number built

65

role

passenger and military transport

origin

🇺🇸 United States

makers

Fokker

engines

3× Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp

crew

1

passengers

12

length

15.4 m

wingspan

21.7 m

height

3.8 m

max take-off weight

5,216 kg

top speed

225 km/h

cruise speed

193 km/h

range

—

ceiling

5,486 m

landing gear

fixed conventional landing gear

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.