Fokker DC.I

The Fokker DC.I was an aircraft produced in the Netherlands in the early 1920s for the combined role of fighter and reconnaissance aircraft, which the company designation reflected: D was the Idflieg designation for a fighter in the First World War and C meant an armed reconnaissance aircraft. It was a conventional single-bay biplane with staggered, unequal-span wings braced by N-struts, derived from the Fokker C.IV, with the pilot and observer in tandem open cockpits and a fixed tailskid undercarriage whose main units were linked by a cross-axle. The wings were wooden and the fuselage was welded steel tube covered in fabric. A Napier Lion engine of 340 kW gave a maximum speed of 245 km/h. Ten DC.Is were ordered by the Dutch East Indies Army Air Service, which flew them from 1925 to 1934.