Fokker F-10

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The Fokker F-10

This was one of the Fokker transport airplanes that were built only in the United States. They can be distinguished from Dutch-built Fokkers in that arabic, not roman, numerals were used for the type designations. Other U. S. Fokker types were the Universal and Super Universal (page 18), the F-32 (page 21) and the F-14 (page 22).

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Western spent its entire $ 180,000 from the Guggenheim Fund to purchase three Fokker F-10 tri-motors. The Fokker had three Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines; it could maintain altitude with only one, and could climb to 7,000 feet with two. The F-10 had wheel brakes, a lavatory, a lighted instrument panel, and “full cabin-length windows” that could be opened in flight to let in the fresh air. Fokker built 65 of these early ‘airliners’ of which 58 were F-lOAs. Until the highly publicized T. A.T. disaster of March 1931—the notorious Knute Rockne crash—the Fokker was considered to be as good as the Ford Tri-Motor.

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MSN Regn. Remarks Curtiss HS-2L A-1373 A-1981 111 NC652 NC2420 NC5419 I Operated by Pacific wfu Jul 29 l Marine, 1922-28 wfu May 29 J Fleet Numbers 225-227 Loening C-2H 220 230 NC9773 NC135H 1 Ordered by Pacific Marine, delivered to W. A.E., Mar/Jun 29; і Fleet Numbers 301-302; sold May 31 Sikorsky S-3J 14-5 A NC8031 Flying Fish, Fleet Number 300; delivered to W. A.E., Oct 28; written off, Avalon, 5 Jun 29 Boeing 204 1076 NC874E Delivered May 1929, Fleet Number 228; sold to Gorst Air Tpt., 7 Jen 31

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