Fokker F.XXII

The Fokker F.XXII, also called the F.22, was a 1930s Dutch four-engined 22-passenger airliner designed and built by Fokker as a smaller version of the F.XXXVI. It was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tailwheel landing gear, powered by four Pratt and Whitney Wasp radial piston engines mounted in the wing leading edge. The first aircraft, PH-AJP, flew in 1935 and was followed by two production aircraft for KLM and a fourth for the Swedish airline AB Aerotransport. One KLM aircraft crashed in July 1935 and the other two served until August 1939, when they were sold in the United Kingdom, impressed into the Royal Air Force in 1941, and one survived the war to fly between Prestwick and Belfast until it was grounded at the end of 1947. The Swedish aircraft, named Lappland, flew Amsterdam to Malmo until it was destroyed in an accident in June 1936. A version with retractable gear and Gnome-Rhone engines, the F.XXIII, was never built, and a British licence as the Airspeed AS.16 brought no orders.