Fokker PW-5

The Fokker PW-5, which Fokker itself designated the F VI, was a Dutch fighter of the 1920s, a parasol monoplane of which twelve were built for the US Army Air Service and used as advanced trainers. In 1921 the Air Service evaluated the Fokker D.VIII parasol monoplane and the D.VII biplane, both fighters handed over to it after the Armistice, and then ordered two parasol monoplane fighters based on the D.VIII but powered by an American-built Hispano-Suiza V-8 engine. They had plywood-covered wooden cantilever wings like the D.VIII and D.X, a typical Fokker welded steel-tube fuselage with the forward part protected by armour plates, a fixed tailskid undercarriage and no fixed fin, only a balanced rudder. The two evaluation examples were delivered in 1921, one of them crashing on 13 March 1922 when its wing failed from flutter, and an order for ten more followed and was delivered, the aircraft serving as advanced trainers with the 1st Pursuit Group.