Fokker 70
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Key facts
- Type
- Regional jet
- National origin
- Netherlands
- Manufacturer
- Fokker
- Status
- In service
- Primary users
- Alliance Airlines Air Niugini , KLM Cityhopper (Former) , Austrian Airlines (Former)
- Number built
- 47 (+1 prototype)
- Manufactured
- 1992-1997
- Introduction date
- October 1994 with Ford Motor Company (private) , 1995 with Sempati Air (commercial)
- First flight
- 4 April 1993
- Developed from
- Fokker 100
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Wikidata facts
- Operator
- Alliance Airlines
- Country of origin
- Netherlands
- Follows
- Fokker F28 Fellowship
- Developer
- Fokker
- Manufacturer
- Fokker
- Image
- Klm.fokker70.ph-wxd.bristol.arp.jpg
- Height
- 8.51
- Length
- 30.91
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- service entry
- 1994-00-00
- first flight
- 1993-04-04
- wingspan
- 28.08
- powered by
- Rolls-Royce RB.183 Tay
- total produced
- 48
- maximum operating altitude
- 10668
- maximum capacity
- 85
- wing configuration
- low wing
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Encyclopedic overview
The Fokker 70 is a narrow-body, twin-engined, medium-range, turbofan regional airliner designed and produced by the now defunct Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker.
It was developed during the early 1990s as a smaller version of the newly-developed Fokker 100. Both the Fokker 70 and Fokker 100 were preceded by the first jet airliner manufactured by the company, the Fokker F28 Fellowship. On 4 April 1993, the type performed its maiden flight, while it was introduced to service during the following year. The Fokker 70 was in production for only a relatively short period, between 1992 and 1997, during which 47 aircraft, as well as a single prototype, were completed. Its production had been terminated as a result of the bankruptcy of Fokker in 1996. There had been persistent efforts to restart production of the Fokker 70 by Rekkof. As of June 2022, 34 aircraft of the original production run are reportedly still in active service with various airlines and governments around the world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fokker 70” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.