Fokker F.XXIV

The Fokker F.XXIV was a 1939 passenger airliner design by the Dutch manufacturer Fokker and its first all-metal airliner design. The success of the Douglas DC-3 had sharply reduced Fokker's role in the global airliner market, and even KLM, historically an important customer, turned to other suppliers, ordering the Douglas DC-5 in 1938. The F24 grew out of a Model 175, a T.IX derivative using that bomber's wing, engines and tail with an 18-passenger fuselage, which was judged too small and became the 24-passenger Model 193. Fokker used its political influence to force a sale from the state-owned KLM, which ordered four in October 1939 as part of a package that also included the Douglas DC-4E. It was to be a short-range all-metal twin-engine aircraft with two 1,200 kW Wright R-2600 Twin Cyclone radials and a fuselage for 26 passengers, but the project never materialized because the Second World War broke out.