Fokker T.IV

The Fokker T.IV was a Dutch twin-engined torpedo bomber and maritime reconnaissance floatplane of the 1920s and 1930s, built to meet a Royal Netherlands Navy requirement for use in the Dutch East Indies. It first flew on 7 June 1927 and had a thick, cantilever, high-mounted monoplane wing and a deep, slab-sided fuselage with an open cockpit for the two-man crew. It could carry a torpedo or 800 kg of bombs and had three defensive machine guns, and the first version used two 450 hp Lorraine-Dietrich W-12 engines. In 1935 Fokker produced the T.IVa with Wright Cyclone radial engines and enclosed cockpit and turrets. It served with the Dutch Naval Aviation Service until the remaining aircraft were destroyed in the Japanese invasion of 1942.