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F. IX
Type Airliner
Manufacturer Fokker, Avia (under licence)
Maiden flight 23 August 1929
Primary users Czechoslovakian Air Force
KLM,
CSA
Number built 18

The Fokker F. An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing building testing selling and maintaining Aircraft, Aircraft parts Fokker was a Dutch Aircraft manufacturer named after its founder Anthony Fokker. Avia is a Czech Aircraft and Automotive company notable for producing Biplane Fighter aircraft, especially the B-534 The maiden flight of an Aircraft is the first occasion on which an aircraft leaves the ground of its own accord This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1929: Events Greatest number of fatal civil aircraft crashes in US history The Czech Air Force, ICAO code CEF is the Air force branch of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ( Dutch: Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij, literally Royal Aviation Company; usual English translation Czech Airlines jsc (České aerolinie as Trading as Czech Airlines ( Abbreviation: ČSA) is the Czech national Airline IX was an airliner developed in the Netherlands in the late 1920s, intended to provide KLM with an aircraft suitable for regular services to the Dutch East Indies. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ( Dutch: Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij, literally Royal Aviation Company; usual English translation See http//enwikipediaorg/wiki/WikipediaFootnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the tags and the template below When the onset of the Great Depression forced the postponement of those plans, the market for this aircraft disappeared as well, although it did see military service in Czechoslovakia as a bomber.

Design and Development

The F. IX was a three-engine, high-wing monoplane of conventional configuration, equipped with tailskid undercarriage. In Aviation, the undercarriage or landing gear is the structure (usually wheels that supports an Aircraft on the ground and allows it to taxi The wings were made of wood, and the fuselage was welded steel tube with a fabric covering. The fuselage (from the French fuselé "spindle-shaped" is an Aircraft 's main body section that holds crew and passengers or Cargo When presented at the 1930 Paris Air Show, it won the Grand Prix de Comfort et d'Elegance d'Avions de Transport - the "beauty prize" as voted by the public. The Paris Air Show ( Salon International de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace Paris-Le Bourget) is an international trade fair for the aerospace business

Czech aircraft manufacturer Avia purchased a licence to produce the type in order to create a bomber for the Czechoslovakian Air Force, when it was decided that the Fokker F.VII that Avia was already producing under licence was too small for this role. Avia is a Czech Aircraft and Automotive company notable for producing Biplane Fighter aircraft, especially the B-534 WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout By 1932, twelve were in service as the F. 39. Yugoslavia also purchased two aircraft, as well as a licence to produce the type domestically, although this did not eventuate. See also Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia ( Serbo-Croatian The F. 39s differed from their civil counterparts not only in the addition of bomb racks, but also in a defensive machine gun being fitted to either a ventral "step" or a turret. Avia also built two examples as airliners for Czechoslovakian Airlines as the F. Czech Airlines jsc (České aerolinie as Trading as Czech Airlines ( Abbreviation: ČSA) is the Czech national Airline IX D (Daprovni - "transport"). One of these survived into World War II, when it was impressed into Luftwaffe service (as TF+BO). World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including ( German 'luftvafe is a generic German term for an Air force.

A further proposed military development by Avia, the two-engine F. 139, never left the drawing board.

Operational history

Even though KLM directors had been talking in terms of ten or more aircraft in 1929, the worsening economic climate resulted in only two being purchased. Due to the logistics implications of stocking spares for only two aircraft, these were confined to European routes and the two F. IXs only ever made one flight each to the Indies. One (registration PH-AFK) was written off in a crash on 4 August 1931, and the other (Adelaaf, PH-AGA) was retired in 1936 and was subsequently acquired by clandestine means to serve as a bomber in the Spanish Republican Air Force during the civil war. The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted Coup d'état committed by parts of the army against the government of

Variants

Fokker

F-IX
Three-engined passenger airliner for KLM. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ( Dutch: Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij, literally Royal Aviation Company; usual English translation

Avia

F. 39
Four-engined bomber aircraft for the Czechoslovakian Air Force. The Czech Air Force, ICAO code CEF is the Air force branch of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic.
F. 139
Proposed twin-engined version of the F. 39. Not built.
F-IX D
Four-engined passenger airliner for Czechoslovakian Airlines. Czech Airlines jsc (České aerolinie as Trading as Czech Airlines ( Abbreviation: ČSA) is the Czech national Airline

Specifications (Fokker F. IX)

General characteristics

Performance


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See also

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