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Key facts
- Type
- Turboprop regional airliner
- National origin
- Netherlands
- Manufacturer
- Fokker
- Status
- In service
- Primary users
- PopulAir Skyward Express , Air Panama , Mahan Air
- Manufactured
- 1985–1997
- First flight
- 28 December 1985
- Developed from
- Fokker F27 Friendship
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Encyclopedic overview
The Fokker 50 is a turboprop-powered airliner manufactured and supported by Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker. It was designed as an improved version of the successful Fokker F27 Friendship. The Fokker 60 is a stretched freighter version of the Fokker 50.
The Fokker 50 was developed during the early 1980s following a decline in the sales of the company's earlier F27 Friendship. It was decided that the new airliner would be a derivative of its predecessor, sharing much of its airframe and design features, while incorporating new advances and several improvements, such as the adoption of Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127B turboprop engines, in order to produce a successor that had a 30 percent reduction in fuel consumption over the F27.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fokker 50” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.