Fokker S-11

The Fokker S-11 Instructor is a single-engine two-seater propeller aircraft designed and manufactured by Fokker, one of the first things the company undertook after the Second World War, as a new military aircraft for elementary flying training. An aircraft trader had already placed orders for 100 in 1946 before construction began. The first prototype flew at Schiphol on 18 December 1947, aerodynamic changes were found necessary in early 1948, and demonstration flights for several air forces followed that year. It was sold to the Royal Netherlands, Israeli, Italian, Brazilian, Paraguayan and Bolivian air forces, and about 170 were licence-built in Italy by Macchi as the M.416. A version with tricycle landing gear, the S-12, was built in Brazil and used by the Brazilian Air Force as the T-22 Instructor. A limited number are still flying today, four of them operated by the Dutch Fokker Four foundation, which also performs with them at airshows.