BERNHARD C.F. KLEIN COLLECTION
No. 5124. Fokker T.IX (970) Netherlands Army Air Service
Photograph from Fokker, taken 1939
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08/31/2007. The sole prototype of the medium bomber was flown on September 10 by September, 1939, by Fokker test pilot .X. Leegstra. On March 8, 1940, it was damage in a landing accident due to landing gear malfuntion and the aircraft was not repaired by the time of the German invation of the Netherlands in May 1940. It was cannibalized during the German occupation and after the war the remains were donated to an aviation museum at Gilze-Riyen, where they were scrapped in 1960. |
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Created March 15, 2006