Fokker F.IV

Fokker F.IV

Jesse Russell Ronald Cohn

     

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ISBN: 978-5-5118-5270-6

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Fokker F.IV was an airliner designed in the Netherlands in the early 1920s, but built to the extent of only two examples, both for the United States Army Air Service. It was a typical Fokker style (though the largest they had yet built) high-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tailskid undercarriage. The pilot sat in an open cockpit alongside the engine in the manner of the Fokker F.III, while a cabin inside the fuselage could seat twelve passengers. Before the aircraft had even been built, the United States Army Air Service had bought two examples during a promotional visit to the country by Anthony Fokker. Built at Fokker`s factory at Veere and flight-tested by Anthony Fokker himself, the two aircraft were crated up and shipped to the United States where they were erected at McCook Field and given the designation T-2. Despite Fokker`s hopes that increasing airline passenger numbers would create interest in aircraft of larger seating capacity, the F.IV was too large for the needs of contemporary airlines, and no further machines were sold.