what is it?
The Fokker F.25 Promotor, first flown in 1946, was a single-engined, twin-boomed, four-seat passenger monoplane with a pusher engine mounted at the rear of a central nacelle. It was of wooden construction and has fitted with a retractable nosewheel undercarriage. One feature of the design was that instead of a 2 + 2 seating, the pilot sat in front to the left, and all three passengers were on a bench seat to the rear of him.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 12 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 80 years ago, in 1946.
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 12 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
- 1946
- number built
- 20
- role
- civil utility aircraft
- makers
- Fokker
- engines
- 1× Lycoming O-435-A
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 3
- length
- 8.5 m
- wingspan
- 12 m
- height
- 2.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,350 kg
- top speed
- 217 km/h
- cruise speed
- 195 km/h
- range
- 515 km
- ceiling
- 3,600 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2793436, Wikipedia: Fokker F.25 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.