Fokker C.VII-W

The Fokker C.VII-W was a reconnaissance seaplane built in the Netherlands in the late 1920s, sharing elements of the highly successful C.V design. It was a conventional single-bay biplane with wings of unequal span braced by N-struts, a standard twin-pontoon undercarriage and a cruciform tail created by carrying the fin and rudder through to the underside of the fuselage; the pilot and observer sat in tandem open cockpits, the wings were wood with fabric and plywood covering and the fuselage was steel tube with fabric covering. A single Armstrong Siddeley Lynx seven-cylinder radial of 168 kW gave a maximum speed of 160 km/h. Thirty were produced for the Royal Netherlands Navy, the first twelve going to the Dutch East Indies; the type left front-line service in 1940 but some machines stayed active there as trainers until the Japanese invasion in 1942.