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Fokker and V
* Fokker T. V, a WWII bomber aircraft
These countries bought substantial numbers of the Fokker C. V reconnaissance aircraft, which became Fokker's main success in the latter part of the 1920s and early 1930s.
* Fokker D. V ( M. 22 )
* Fokker V. 1
* Fokker V. 2 and V. 3
* Fokker V. 4
* Fokker F. I ( V. 5 )
* Fokker V. 6
* Fokker V. 7
* Fokker V. 8
* Fokker V. 9, V. 11, V. 12, V. 13.
* Fokker D. VII ( V. 11 / 13 )
* Fokker V. 17-V. 25
* Fokker E. V / D. VIII ( V. 26 )
* Fokker V. 27-V. 37
* Fokker C. I ( V. 38 )
* Fokker V. 39-Fokker V. 42
* Fokker F. V
* Fokker C. V

Fokker and .
* 1890 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch aviation engineer ( d. 1939 )
* Fokker E. II, a 1915 German single-seat monoplane fighter aircraft
The actual aircraft used by Wintgens in his pioneering aerial engagement, his Fokker M. 5K / MG with IdFlieg military serial number " E. 5 / 15 ", as it appeared at the time of the engagement.
Meanwhile, the synchronization gear ( called the Stangensteuerung in German, for " pushrod control system ") devised by the engineers of Anthony Fokker's firm was the first system to see production contracts, and would make the Fokker Eindecker monoplane a feared name over the Western Front, despite its being an adaptation of an obsolete pre-war French Morane-Saulnier racing airplane, with a mediocre performance and poor flight characteristics.
Wintgens ' aircraft, one of the five Fokker M. 5K / MG production prototype examples of the Eindecker, was armed with a synchronized, air-cooled aviation version of the Parabellum MG14 machine gun.
The use of metal aircraft structures was pioneered before World War I by Breguet but would find its biggest proponent with Anthony Fokker who used chrome-molybdenum steel tubing for the fuselage structure of all his fighter designs, while the innovative German engineer Hugo Junkers developed two all-metal, single-seat fighter monoplane designs with cantilever wings: the strictly experimental Junkers J 2 private-venture aircraft, made with steel, and some forty examples of the Junkers D. I, made with corrugated duralumin, all based on his experience in creating the pioneering Junkers J 1 all-metal airframe technology demonstration aircraft of late 1915.
While Fokker would pursue steel tube fuselages with wooden wings until the late 1930s, and Junkers would focus on corrugated sheet metal, Dornier was the first to build a fighter ( The Dornier D. I ) made with pre-stressed sheet aluminium and having cantelevered wings, a form that would replace all others in the 1930s.
Aircraft engines increased in power several-fold over the period, going from a typical in the 1918 Fokker D. VII to in the 1938 Curtiss P-36.
* 1927 – The Bird of Paradise, a U. S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
* 1915 – Lieutenant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M. 5K / MG Eindecker.
* 1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
Shortly after taking off from Kansas City, where he had stopped to visit his two sons, Bill and Knute Jr., who were in boarding school there at the Pembroke-Country Day School, one of the Fokker Trimotor aircraft's wings separated in flight.
During World War I, the Imperial Army Air Service utilised a wide variety of aircraft, ranging from fighters ( such as those manufactured by Albatros-Flugzeugwerke and Fokker ) to reconnaissance aircraft ( Aviatik and DFW ) and heavy bombers ( Gothaer Waggonfabrik, better known simply as Gotha, and the Zeppelin-Staaken R. VI " giant " heavy bomber ).
Domestic flights are operated using Fokker 50, Saab 340, Airbus 319 and Bombardier Q400 aircraft.
The first claimed flight over the Pole was made on 9 May 1926 by US naval officer Richard E. Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett in a Fokker tri-motor aircraft.

Fokker and 8
Some commercial aircraft with turboprop engines include the Bombardier Dash 8, ATR 42, ATR 72, BAe Jetstream 31, Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner, Saab 340 and 2000, Xian MA60, Xian MA600, and Xian MA700, Fokker 27, 50 and 60.
* Fokker A. I ( M. 8 )
Mid-range airliners seen at London City include the ATR 42 ( both − 300 and − 500 variants ), ATR 72, Airbus A318, DHC Dash 8, BAe 146, Dornier 328, Embraer ERJ 135, Embraer 170, Embraer 190 and Fokker 50.
* December 8 – A Peruvian Naval Aviation Fokker F27 Friendship chartered by the Peruvian association football club Alianza Lima crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the Ventanilla District of Callao, Peru, killing 43 of the 44 people on board.
It had also operated the De Havilland Canada Dash 8, the Shorts 330 and for a short time, a Fokker F100.
* Fokker V. 8, a German septuplane
* March 27 – Under attack by several German Fokker Dr. I triplanes over Albert, France, 18-year-old Canadian Second Lieutenant Alan Arnett McLeod, the pilot of an Armstrong Whitworth F. K. 8 of the Royal Flying Corpss No. 2 Squadron, and his observer, Lieutenant Arthur Hammond, shoot down four of the German fighters before themselves being shot down in flames and crash-landing in No Man's Land.
East West operated a total fleet of 11 aircraft, including 8 leased Boeing B737s and 3 Fokker F27 After the Airline shut down operations, the Boeings were returned to the lessors
The company's first airplanes were Fokker 100's and since late 1990's it has also purchased 8 Embraer 145, becoming the main competitor of state flag carrier TAP Portugal.
The Company ’ s fleet stabilized in 2000 with 14 aircraft ( 6 Fokker 100 and 8 Embraer 145 ) still operating today.
Since the acquisition of the rights to the Air Panama brand in 2005, the company has opened more destinations and it has begun to acquire new turboprop aircraft such as the Saab 340 and the-300 version of the Dash 8, in order to remplace older Jetstream 31 and Fokker 27 aircraft, and to continue competition in the domestic market.
In August 2004 a service to Auckland was inaugurated using a Fokker F100, leased from Alliance Airlines, configured with 89 economy seats and 8 business class seats.
Since the mergers had created a diverse mix of aircraft types, Mesa proceeded to simplify the number of aircraft types operated from six ( Shorts 360, Jetstream, Brasilia, 1900, Dash 8, Fokker ) to three ( 1900, Dash 8, CRJ ).
As of April 2012, the Contact Air fleet consists of 8 Fokker 100 aircraft with an average age of 18. 2 years.
At the time of suspension of the license to operate on December 31, 2007, Alpi Eagles operated a fleet consisting of 8 Fokker 100, a 9th had been withdrawn from use in November 2007.
* The De Havilland Canada Dash 8 and the Fokker F50 are examples of turboprop airliners.
Air Niugini also service Mount Hagen, with regular Fokker F100 and Dash 8 services to destinations such as Port Moresby, Moro and Cairns.
Most flights today are operated by regional turboprop aircraft such as the Fokker 50, Dash 8 and ATR aircraft and smaller mainline jets such as the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 series.

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