PH-APL ... a Dutch experimental plane...

[Hauptmann]

Hello,

the LW captured a strange plane coded PH-APL in Holland... it looks like an experimental plane... wath type is it? Any idea?

thanks a lot :-)

[Leendert]

PH-APL was a Fokker C.1 (c/n 527) with a specially designed propellor, an invention of Adriaan Dekker. Registered on 15.4.1937.
It appears that the plane did lift off while making taxi runs at Ypenburg airfield (The Hague).
Seized by the Germans on 18.5.1940.

Regards,

Leendert

[Peter D Evans]

You beat me to it Leendert...

Are their any images of this Fokker C-1 either with the Germans or in Luftwaffe markings?

cheers
Peter D Evans
LEMB Administrator

[mathieu]

An image.

Regards,

Mathieu.

[Stig Jarlevik]

All

Just one correction. The digits 527 is NOT any Fokker c/n. It is the former LVA serial number. Unfortunately no c/n is yet known for this aeroplane

Cheers
Stig

[richardb]

Thank you for the info

The fuselage ,undercrriage and wing struts seem to have been deeply modified ?

[g-1reaper]

Excuse me for digging this topic up... An interesting picture of this interesting aircraft is now on sale: http://cgi.ebay.de/FOTO-Beute-FLUGZE...item20b4e5f976

It was found by German forces on Waalhaven, in 1940.