12/31/2010. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "In the USA, this was Fokker's 12th model, the first four-engine Fokker design, the last Fokker commercial design built, and the largest transport of its day. In keeping with Fokker's sequential numbering, it would have rightly been F-12 as following F-11 amphibian, but the use of the F-32 was the result of a request from Western Air Express for a designation which indicated the impressive seating capacity. The prototype, registered X124M (c/n 1201) and fitted with four tandem-pair mounted 450 hp Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines, was first flown by Marshall Boggs on September 13, 1929.

Production aircraft were powered by four 575 hp Pratt & Whitney Hornet engines, the cooling of the rear engine of each pair appears to have produced problems that were never completely solved. Operated by a crew of five, this was a 32 passenger airliner for day operations, or sixteen-berth sleeper at night. It offered passengers their first reclining seats, two refrigerated galleys with running water, and even two lavatories, while balsa wood was used in the fuselage as a method of sound-proofing.

A total of seven F-32s were built but only Western Air Express (which purchased two examples) seem to have operated the type with any success, this was on their San Francisco-Los Angeles route in 1930. The US Army tested the second F-32 using the designation YC-20 but no further order was given.

The final one (NC342N c/n 7) flew in March 1930 and was customized as a sumptuous "air yacht" and was used by Anthony 'Tony' Fokker for some twenty months. In 1934 it was converted into a house trailer at Wheeling West Virginia, it was destroyed in a flood in January 1937.

Pictured in front of the aircraft is Charles 'Smithy' Edward Kingsford Smith."