Fokker F.XII

The Fokker F.XII was a three-engined, high-winged monoplane airliner produced in the 1930s by Fokker. Ten aircraft were ordered by KLM and its Indies affiliate KNILM for the Amsterdam to Batavia route, with the first service leaving Amsterdam on 5 March 1931 and arriving in Batavia on 14 March. When KLM began using the larger F.XVIII on that route in 1932, the F.XIIs moved to European destinations. In 1936 KLM sold some to British operators and others ended up with the Spanish Nationalists and Republicans in the civil war. Two aircraft were built under licence in Denmark, and an eleventh Dutch-built aircraft went to AB Aerotransport of Sweden with a 14-passenger layout.