Fokker S.III

The Fokker S.III was a biplane trainer aircraft of the 1920s, of conventional configuration with the pilot and instructor seated in tandem open cockpits and single-bay staggered wings of unequal span. A Hispano-Suiza 8 water-cooled V-8 piston engine of 134 kW gave a maximum speed of 217 km/h, and the type was a two-seat primary trainer with a length of 8.03 m and a wingspan of 10.67 m. In 1927 Fokker's United States subsidiary Atlantic Aircraft imported a single example, designated the S-3, in an attempt to interest the US Army in the type, but this did not produce a sale; the aircraft was eventually bought by the Wright Aeronautical Corporation and used as an engine testbed until it was broken up in 1929. Operators of the S.III included the Royal Netherlands Navy and the Royal Danish Air Force, which flew two.