Key facts
- Type
- Fighter
- Manufacturer
- Fokker-Flugzeugwerke
- Designer
- Reinhold Platz
- Primary user
- Luftstreitkräfte
- Number built
- Approximately 3,300
- First flight
- January 1918
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Operator
- United States Navy
- Duration
- 90
- Developer
- Fokker
- Mass
- 906
- Manufacturer
- Fokker
- Designed by
- Reinhold Platz
- Image
- Fokker D VII 2.jpg
- Height
- 2.945
- Length
- 6.954
- Speed
- 200
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- Commons category
- Fokker D.VII
- powered by
- BMW IIIa
- armament
- machine gun
- total produced
- 1700
- first flight
- 1918-01-00
- Commons gallery
- Fokker D VII
- wingspan
- 8.90
- maximum operating altitude
- 8000
- maximum capacity
- 1
- wing area
- 20.2
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Encyclopedic overview
The Fokker D.VII is a German World War I fighter aircraft designed by Reinhold Platz of the Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. Germany produced around 3,300 D.VII aircraft in the second half of 1918. In service with the Luftstreitkräfte, the D.VII quickly proved itself to be a formidable aircraft. The Armistice ending the war specifically required, as the fourth clause of the "Clauses Relating to the Western Front", that Germany was required to surrender all D.VIIs to the Allies. Surviving aircraft saw much service with many countries in the years after World War I.
Development and production
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fokker D.VII” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.