Fokker S.I

The Fokker S.I was a 1910s Dutch primary trainer, the first of a family of trainers from the Fokker company. The S.I was designed by Rheinhold Platz as a primary trainer with a cantilever parasol wing with two side-by-side seats for instructor and pupil in a wide cockpit. It first flew in early 1919 at Schwerin. Although the prototype performed well, the unusual cantilever parasol wing was not liked and only three production aircraft were built. ... More

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Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. The company operated under several different names, starting out in 1912 in Schwerin, Germany, moving to the Netherlands in 1919. During its most successful period in the 1920s and 1930s, it dominated the civil...

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