what is it?
The Fokker F.XII was a three-engined high-winged monoplane airliner produced in the 1930s by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker. Two aircraft were built under license by Danish Orlogsværftet. The first was powered by 347 kW (465 hp) Bristol Jupiter VI radial engines and the second, an improved model, the F.XIIM, was about 20 km/h (12 mph) faster than the Dutch-built F.XIIs.
How to recognise it: 3 piston engines with propellers · 23 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 95 years ago, in 1931.
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 23 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
- 1931-01
- introduced
- 1931
- retired
- 1947
- status
- retired
- number built
- —
- role
- passenger transport
- makers
- Fokker
- engines
- 3× Pratt & Whitney Wasp C
- crew
- 2
- passengers
- 16
- length
- 17.5 m
- wingspan
- 23 m
- height
- 4.3 m
- max take-off weight
- 7,251 kg
- top speed
- 220 km/h
- cruise speed
- 190 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 4,499 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1435252, Wikipedia: Fokker F.XII (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.