Fokker F.XIV

The Fokker F.XIV was a cargo plane built in the Netherlands in the late 1920s by Fokker, a high-wing cantilever monoplane. In early 1929 Fokker designed and built a prototype single-engine cargo aircraft, probably to meet a KLM requirement, powered by a 340 kW Gnome-Rhone Jupiter VI radial with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage; two pilots sat in an enclosed cockpit ahead of the wing and the 5 m cabin could carry 1,240 kg. Airlines showed little interest in a cargo aircraft, so in 1931 Fokker rebuilt it as the F.XIV-3m, a three-engined passenger airliner with three 280 kW Lorraine Algol radials and seats for eight passengers, which reached a maximum speed of 234 km/h. KLM tested the sole example but never bought or operated it, and it ended its days as an exhibit in a pleasure garden.