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It had two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops, a pressurised cabin and an airframe in which much of the metal was glued together rather than riveted. According to the Fokker history archive, the flight lasted 34 minutes.<\/p>\r\n<p>Fokker called it the Friendship. Over the next three decades the F27 became the most numerous post-war aircraft built in the Netherlands and the best-selling European turboprop airliner of its era, a record only later overtaken by the ATR 72. Counting the American-built versions, 787 were made.<\/p>\r\n<p>Afterburner recently told the story of the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/vickers-viscount-first-turboprop-airliner-history\/\">Vickers Viscount<\/a>, the world's first turboprop airliner and the aircraft that proved the Dart engine. The Friendship took that same engine, scaled the formula down for short regional hops, and sold it to the world. It came from a company still remembered for First World War fighters such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fokker-d-vii\/\">Fokker D.VII<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0 26px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>First flight:<\/strong> 24 November 1955, prototype PH-NIV<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Engines:<\/strong> Two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>First airline service:<\/strong> West Coast Airlines (Fairchild F-27), September 1958<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>First Fokker-built customer:<\/strong> Aer Lingus, deliveries from 19 November 1958<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Production:<\/strong> 787 in total: 581 by Fokker, 206 by Fairchild (128 F-27, 78 FH-227)<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Seats:<\/strong> 28 in the first prototype, 44 in the F27-100, up to 52 in the F27-500<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Military versions:<\/strong> Troopship transports, F27 Maritime and Maritime Enforcer patrol aircraft<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Successor:<\/strong> Fokker 50, first flight 28 December 1985<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Dutch Answer to the DC-3<\/h2>\r\n<p>After the Second World War, short-haul flying belonged to the Douglas DC-3 and its military twin, the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/c-47-skytrain\/\">C-47 Skytrain<\/a>. More than 10,000 had been built during the war, and surplus airframes were cheap and everywhere. By 1951 voices inside Fokker were urging a 32-seat airliner designed as a direct DC-3 replacement.<\/p>\r\n<p>Fokker asked DC-3 operators what they wanted from a successor, then let chief designer Kees van Meerten and his team work through the options. Wright Cyclone radial engines were considered and rejected. The final layout, which began as design study P275, paired a high wing with two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops and a pressurised cabin for 28 passengers.<\/p>\r\n<p>The high wing gave more lift, a low cabin floor for easy loading at small airports and an unobstructed view for every passenger. The Dart had already proven itself on the Viscount. In 1953 the project received its name, Friendship, and Dutch government funding helped pay for the prototypes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/brciZ8R0oUM\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic\">Period footage of a test flight by the first Fokker F27 prototype, PH-NIV.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Glued, Not Riveted<\/h2>\r\n<p>The most radical thing about the F27 was invisible from the outside. Fokker used Redux, a metal-to-metal bonding process, for much of the airframe, becoming the first company after de Havilland to build an airliner this way. Bonded panels meant a longer fatigue life, smoother skins and a lighter structure.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Aviodrome aviation museum in Lelystad, which keeps two Friendships in its collection, sums it up plainly.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;Instead of riveting with nails, the metal parts were glued. The result was significant weight savings, extra rigidity and better streamlining.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Aviodrome<\/strong> &mdash; aviation museum in Lelystad, Netherlands, collection page for the Fokker F.27 Friendship<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>Four prototypes were built. Two flew, while the other two were used for static and fatigue testing. Flight trials revealed that PH-NIV was slightly tail-heavy, so the second prototype, which first flew in January 1957, was stretched by about 0.9 metres. The fix also made room for four more passengers, raising capacity to 32.<\/p>\r\n<p>Production aircraft grew again. The first production model, the F27-100, seated 44, and later variants used more powerful Darts. The F27-500, with a 1.5-metre longer fuselage and room for up to 52 passengers, flew in November 1967.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/fokker-f27-prototype-ph-niv-november-1955.jpg\" alt=\"Tail of the Fokker F27 prototype PH-NIV with Fokker F.27 logo, men inspecting the Rolls-Royce Dart nacelle in November 1955\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The prototype PH-NIV nearing completion on 7 November 1955, 17 days before its first flight. Photo: Harry Pot \/ Anefo, Nationaal Archief \/ CC0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">America Got There First<\/h2>\r\n<p>Fokker had been talking to the American manufacturer Fairchild since 1952, and in 1956 the two signed a licence deal. Fairchild would build the Friendship in the United States as the F-27. The first American-built aircraft flew on 12 April 1958.<\/p>\r\n<p>Then came a twist. The first Friendship of either make to carry fare-paying passengers was a Fairchild F-27, which entered service with West Coast Airlines in September 1958, before any Dutch-built example. Fairchild's version had a basic layout for 40 seats, heavier skins, a longer nose able to hold weather radar, more fuel and a rear airstair door that saved airports from wheeling out steps.<\/p>\r\n<p>Fairchild went further on its own. The FH-227 stretched the fuselage by 1.83 metres for 56 standard seats and appeared almost two years before Fokker's similar F27-500. Allegheny, Ozark, Piedmont, Mohawk and many other US regional carriers flew the Fairchild family. When American production ended in 1973, Fairchild had built 128 F-27s and 78 FH-227s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/fairchild-f-27-west-coast-airlines-n2701-1967.jpg\" alt=\"Fairchild F-27 N2701 in West Coast Airlines livery with passengers leaving through the rear airstair door\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Fairchild-built F-27 N2701 of West Coast Airlines, the first airline to fly the Friendship, at Calgary in June 1967. Passengers are using the rear airstair door, a Fairchild feature. Photo: Ken Fielding \/ CC BY-SA 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Aer Lingus and the European Breakthrough<\/h2>\r\n<p>In Europe the honour went to Ireland. Aer Lingus took delivery of its first two F27-100s on 19 November 1958 and began flying them in December, replacing its DC-3s. The Irish airline already knew the Dart well, having been the third airline to introduce the Viscount. According to the Irish travel trade site Travel Extra, all seven of its Friendships were named after saints whose names began with F.<\/p>\r\n<p>Other early buyers included Braathens SAFE in Norway, Luxair, Turkish Airlines, New Zealand's National Airways Corporation and Australia's Trans Australia Airlines, Ansett and East-West Airlines. Even so, early sales were slow, and Fokker had to lean on banks and the Dutch government to keep the production line running while it hunted for customers.<\/p>\r\n<p>In 1960 the tide turned. Operators found the Friendship faster, quieter, more comfortable and more reliable than the piston airliners it replaced, and big orders followed. That year an F27 with RDa.6 Darts carried a base price of \u00a3239,000.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QtF-dHskDzQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic\">Ruairidh MacVeigh's documentary on the Fokker F27 and its successor, the Fokker 50.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Troopships and Sub-Hunters<\/h2>\r\n<p>The same airframe made a natural military workhorse. The F27-300M Troopship was built for the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-netherlands-air-and-space-force\/\">Royal Netherlands Air Force<\/a>, with extra-large doors on both sides so paratroopers could jump. The Finnish Air Force used Friendships for transport, signals reconnaissance and parachute training.<\/p>\r\n<p>The best-known military Friendships flew for the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/united-states-army-aviation-branch\/\">US Army<\/a>. In December 1985 the Golden Knights parachute team leased two F27-400Ms from Fokker to replace their ageing YC-7A <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/dhc-4-caribou\/\">Caribou<\/a>. The Army soon bought them outright as the C-31A Troopship, and they carried the team to its shows for more than three decades.<\/p>\r\n<p>After the type was retired in 2019, the C-31A known as Excalibur flew to Lelystad in the Netherlands to join a Dutch flying heritage collection, bringing one Friendship home.<\/p>\r\n<p>Fokker also turned the F27 into a maritime patrol aircraft. The unarmed F27 Maritime was built for offshore surveillance, search and rescue, pollution control and fishery inspection, while the Maritime Enforcer added underwing attachment points for bombs and rockets. The prototype was an ex-Turkish Airlines F27 that Fokker bought back and converted. Sales were fewer than hoped, at around 15 aircraft.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/fokker-f27-maritime-m-2-336-squadron-curacao.jpg\" alt=\"Royal Netherlands Air Force Fokker F27 Maritime M-2 of 336 Squadron on the apron at Curacao with sister aircraft M-1 taking off\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">F27 Maritime M-2 of the Royal Netherlands Air Force's 336 Squadron at its base on Cura\u00e7ao, with sister aircraft M-1 taking off in the background. Photo: Koninklijke Luchtmacht \/ CC BY-SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">From F27 to Fokker 50<\/h2>\r\n<p>Part of the Friendship's appeal to small operators in remote places lay in its simple systems. Fokker chose a pneumatic system instead of hydraulics, a choice the Fokker history archive credits with making the F27 quick, easy and economical to maintain.<\/p>\r\n<p>By the early 1980s, though, sales were sliding. In November 1983 Fokker decided to develop two new airliners at once: the Fokker 100 to replace the F28 Fellowship jet, and the Fokker 50 to replace the F27. Though derived from the F27-500, the Fokker 50 was virtually a new aircraft, with Pratt &amp; Whitney Canada engines and modern systems that cut fuel burn by about 30 per cent.<\/p>\r\n<p>It was a genuinely European airliner. Belgium's SABCA built the wings, Dassault supplied fuselage sections and Germany's MBB made the flaps. The Fokker 50 first flew on 28 December 1985 and entered service in 1987, the year the last F27s were produced. The Rolls-Royce Dart bowed out with them, after some 40 years and about 7,100 engines.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VTr2hBhcvs0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic\">An Airwork Fokker F-27 lands and taxis at Blenheim, New Zealand, with the distinctive whine of its Rolls-Royce Dart engines.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Dutch Design Icon<\/h2>\r\n<p>The Fokker 50 never matched its parent. Only 213 were completed before Fokker collapsed into bankruptcy in March 1996, squeezed by cost overruns and competition from the ATR 42, Saab 340 and Dash 8. The Friendship had long since paid its way.<\/p>\r\n<p>In 2006 the Dutch public voted the F27 the best Dutch design of all time in a poll run by the Premsela design foundation and the newspaper NRC Handelsblad, ahead of a Rietveld chair, the Senseo coffee maker and the Maxi-Cosi baby seat.<\/p>\r\n<p>Today a Friendship painted as PH-NIV stands guard at the entrance to the Fokker Logistics Park at Oude Meer, on the site of the old factory beside Schiphol. It is actually a later F27-500, but the paint is right. The Aviodrome in Lelystad keeps the third prototype and the first production aircraft. Like the Viscount before it, the F27 proved that turbine power belonged on short routes too, and Europe sold that idea to the world.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Sources: Wikipedia (Fokker F27 Friendship, Fairchild F-27, Fokker 50, Rolls-Royce Dart, Fokker F27 Dutch edition), fokker-history.com, Aviodrome, Airways Magazine, Vintage Aviation News, Aer Lingus media centre, Travel Extra, Army.mil, GlobalSecurity.org, dutch-aviation.nl, Septentrion (2006)<\/em><\/p>\r\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\r\n\r\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>When did the Fokker F27 Friendship first fly?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Fokker F27 Friendship first flew on 24 November 1955, when the prototype PH-NIV took off for a flight that the Fokker history archive says lasted 34 minutes. Four prototypes were built, two for flying and two for static and fatigue testing. The second prototype, stretched by about 0.9 metres, flew in January 1957.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many Fokker F27 Friendships were built?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">A total of 787 Fokker F27 Friendships were built. Fokker produced 581 in the Netherlands, while Fairchild built 206 under licence in the United States, made up of 128 F-27s and 78 stretched FH-227s. That made the Friendship the best-selling European turboprop airliner of its era, a record later overtaken by the ATR 72.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What engines did the Fokker F27 Friendship use?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Fokker F27 Friendship used two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop engines, the same engine family that had proven itself on the Vickers Viscount. Later F27 variants received more powerful Dart marks. The Dart stayed in production until 1987, when the last F27s were built, after about 40 years and around 7,100 engines.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Which airline was the first to fly the Fokker F27?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The first airline to fly the Friendship was West Coast Airlines in the United States, which put a Fairchild-built F-27 into service in September 1958. Aer Lingus was the first customer for Fokker-built aircraft, taking delivery of its first two F27-100s on 19 November 1958 and starting flights in December, replacing its DC-3s.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is the Fairchild FH-227?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Fairchild FH-227 is a stretched version of the Fokker F27 developed independently by Fairchild in the United States. Its fuselage was 1.83 metres longer than the standard F27, giving 56 standard seats, and it appeared almost two years before Fokker's similar F27-500. Fairchild built 78 FH-227s alongside 128 standard F-27s.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What military versions of the Fokker F27 were built?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Military Fokker F27 versions included the F27-300M Troopship for the Royal Netherlands Air Force and the F27-400M, flown by the US Army Golden Knights as the C-31A Troopship from 1985 until 2019. Fokker also built the unarmed F27 Maritime patrol aircraft and the armed Maritime Enforcer, selling around 15 maritime aircraft.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What replaced the Fokker F27 Friendship?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Fokker 50 replaced the Fokker F27 Friendship. Derived from the F27-500 but virtually a new aircraft, it had Pratt and Whitney Canada engines and modern systems that cut fuel burn by about 30 per cent. It first flew on 28 December 1985 and entered service in 1987. 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