Fokker D.V

The Fokker D.V, Fokker designation M.22, was a biplane fighter designed by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke during the First World War for the Imperial German Air Service and the Imperial German Navy's Naval Air Service. Developed from the D.II and intended from the start as a fighter trainer, it was a smaller, lighter rotary-powered design with a swept-back upper wing, ailerons rather than wing warping, and a circular cowling enclosing a 75 kW Oberursel U.I engine. Three batches totalling 300 aircraft were ordered in October 1916 and deliveries began in January 1917. Its low-compression engine gave poor performance against the Albatros fighters, so most went to training schools and 72 to the Naval Air Service.