Fokker Archives

VFW 614

7 October 2025 Jacek Domański

VFW 614 (c/n G18, D-AXDB, formerly 17+02 of Luftwaffe / the German Air Force), exhibited at the Aeronauticum Nordholz aviation museum, June 2019. The VFW 614 (also known as the VFW-Fokker 614) was a twin-engine […]

Fokker S.11-1 Instructor

22 October 2024 Jacek Domański

Fokker S.11-1 Instructor (c/n 6269, OO-MSH, formerly E-26 of Luchtstrijdkrachten), static display at 44th Sanicole International Airshow, Hechtel-Eksel, September 2024. After the World War II, the Dutch aviation industry was being slowly rebuilt from the […]

24 November 1924 – first flight from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies

23 November 2023 Jacek Domański

On 24th November 1924, Fokker F.VII airliner of the KLM Dutch airline landed in Jakarta, successfully completing the first air bridge between the Netherlands and the Dutch East indies. The first decade after the Great […]

9 June 1928 – the first transpacific flight is successfully completed

8 June 2023 Jacek Domański

On 9th June 1928, a Fokker F.VII/3 named ´Southern Cross´ flown by Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew, successfully landed in Brisbane, Australia, therefore completing the 11,566-kilometre-long journey from Oakland, California. Sir Charles Edward Kingsford […]