Fokker Super Universal

what is it?

The Fokker Super Universal is an airliner produced in the United States in the late 1920s by Fokker America, an enlarged and improved version of the Fokker Universal, fitted with cantilever wings and an enclosed cockpit. It was also called the Model 8. It was subsequently also manufactured under license in Canada, and in Japan as the Nakajima–Fokker Super Universal and for the IJAAF as the Nakajima Ki-6 and later in the puppet state of Manchukuo as the Manshū Super Universal.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 engine · 15.4 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 222 km/htop speed
• size 2,517 kgmax take-off weight
• built 200made 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 98 years ago, in 1928.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 15.4 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.

spec sheet

first flight

1928

number built

200

role

airliner

makers

Fokker

engines

1× Pratt & Whitney Wasp B air-cooled radial piston engine

length

11.3 m

wingspan

15.4 m

height

2.8 m

max take-off weight

2,517 kg

top speed

222 km/h

range

—

ceiling

5,900 m

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