Fokker F28

Fokker F28 Fellowship
Type:	twin-engine short - haul airliner
Design country:	Netherlands
Manufacturer:	Fokker
First flight:	May 9, 1967
Commissioning:	1969
Production time:	1967-1987
Number of pieces:	241

The Fokker F28 Fellowship is a short-haul airliner from the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker .

history

In 1962, the F28 was announced as a joint production of the European aircraft manufacturers Fokker , Messerschmitt AG , VFW-Fokker and Short . Fokker was responsible for the construction of the fuselage bow (with the cockpit ) and the middle part of the fuselage including the inner wing, MBB / VFW manufactured the front and rear fuselage and the tail unit, the outer wing was manufactured by Short. The final assembly took place at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam .

The aircraft was a low- wing aircraft with two Rolls-Royce Spey engines attached to the stern , similar to its competitors BAC 1-11 and Douglas DC-9 . There was room for 65 passengers.

The first prototype flew on May 9, 1967, and it was registered in 1969. First customers were LTU and Braathens , who put the aircraft into service in 1969. When production ceased in 1987, 241 aircraft had been built. The successor was the Fokker 100 . As of April 2015, a total of 20 of 241 F28s built are still in active service.

Versions

The first version -1000 was supplemented in 1971 by the -2000, which was extended by 2.5 meters for 79 passengers. The -5000 and -6000 got more powerful Spey engines and slats , ten copies of this version were produced. In 1976 the -3000 and -4000 versions with extended wings came onto the market.

Incidents

From 1972 to February 2019 there were 45 total losses of F28. In 21 of them there were 775 fatalities. The loss rate of the aircraft was (up to 2017) 4.51 total losses per 1 million flights. Among the jet-propelled and mass-produced commercial aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of more than 27,216 kg (60,000 lbs), the F28 has the highest loss rate among the jet-propelled and mass-produced airliners built outside the Soviet Union or the Commonwealth of Independent States since 1960 . If one takes into account machines produced in small series with the same technical properties in the statistics, the F28 is behind the Concorde , in which the value results from the small number of machines produced, especially since there was only one total loss with this type of aircraft .

Technical specifications

Parameter	-1000	-2000	-3000	-4000
Max. Seats	65	85	65	85
length	27.40 m	29.61 m	27.40 m	29.61 m
span	23.58 m		25.07 m
Wing area	76.40 m²		78.97 m²
Wing extension	7.3		8.0
Max. Takeoff mass	29,485 kg		33,110 kg
Max. Cruising speed	849 km / h		843 km / h
Service ceiling	10,675 m
Range	2,000 km	1,350 km	2,743 km	1,900 km
Engines	2 × Rolls-Royce Spey MK555-15		2 × Rolls-Royce Spey MK555-18H