Specifications:

•  1/5 Scale!

• Wing Span "
• Engine: .35 to .40 2 cycle (Gasoline engine)
• Radio: 4-5 channel req.
• CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE

* Note: The plan sheet that is available for download and viewing requires Abode Acrobat Reader, and is NOT as high of quality as the sold product.

About The Plane....

eveloped to a Netherlands East Indies airforce specification the D.XXI (although it never entered service there). Designed in 1936 the D.XXI was by the standards of the day far from a cutting edge aircraft. It was a low wing monoplane with a steel tube fuselage covered for a large part by fabric. It had wooden wings and a fixed undercarriage.

Power was provided by a Bristol Mercury radial driving a 3 blade two pitch prop. When it entered service in 1938 it was a quantum leap forward for the Royal Dutch Airforce. Until then its fighter force had consisted of aging biplanes with open cockpits. The new Fokker proved to be an extremely sturdy aircraft capable of attaining a speed of 700km/h in a dive. It was no novices aircraft but in the hands of experienced pilots it proved to be very maneuverable.

Shortly before hostilities started in may 1940 29 of the 36 delivered aircraft, were on strength when the German onslaught started. Its pilots put up a valiant fight, but less then 10 remained serviceable after the first day of open war. Although it really was no match for the faster and heavier armed Me 109, the D.XXI’s claimed some 16 victories including several 109’s! The Dutch airforce wasn’t the only airforce that flew the D.XXI.

As with many types in Spanish civil war, details are sketchy  but at least one machine was delivered to the republicans.  A license for 50 aircraft was also bought and after the war several airframes in various stages of construction where found by the nationalists.

Denmark had 12 machines on strength but they where all destroyed on the ground when the Germans stampeded through that country. It was in Finland where the D.XXI was to prove its worth. Fokker delivered 7 aircraft after which V.L. produced another 90 under license (55 with Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines). In the fight against the Russian airforce the D.XXI proved to be an effective fighter and several Finnish pilots reached their ace status flying the D.XXI. Slowly surviving machines where relegated to reconnaissance and training duties. The last Finnish D.XXI’s where retired in 1948.

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