Airworthy Fokker D.XXI project begins

摘要

Dutch restoration company ATN is to build an airworthy replica of a Fokker D.XXI at Hoogeveen in the Netherlands. The monoplane was the Dutch Army Aviation Brigade's most successful fighter during the German invasion of Holland, Belgium and France in May 1940. No complete Dutch D.XXI has survived, although wreckage is on show at the Crash Museum in Aalsmeerderbrug and the National Military Museum (NMM) at Soesterberg has a non-flying replica. The ATN reproduction is to carry the Dutch civil registration PH-XXI and will be painted to represent D.XXI '223'. The company has acquired an original Wright Cyclone R-1820F engine from the NMM which will be installed in due course. The completed aircraft is expected to make its first flight in 2018 or 2019.