Besides the successful Fokker F-27 Friendship the post-war Dutch Fokker Aircraft Industry built – amongst other types – an elementary trainer for military use., the Fokker S-11 Instructor .
The S-11 was also sold abroad in small numbers and license building was undertaken in Israel , Brazil and Italy.
In the beginning of the Fifties the K.Lu. (Royal Netherlands Air Force ) was searching for a successor of the Tiger Moth and thus accquired some 40 S-11´s. Later on also the Dutch naval air service (MLD) made use of some ex.-Klu examples.
For many years the Fokker S-11 was a common sight in the skies over the Netherlands and although already phased out by the KLu more than forty years ago , some of these yellow painted birds can still be seen in the air nowadays , since the Fokker Four formation display team is operating them , seventy years after the type made its first flight !
(note that tis type of K.Lu. aircraft has been freqently seen by us in active operational service which is the reason for composing this photo gallery)
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- E-1 at Soesterberg in 1971 (HE)
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- E-3 at Eindhoven in 1971 (HE)
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- E-3 at Gilze Rijen in 1969 (HE)
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- E-4 at Soesterberg in 1969 (HE)
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- E-5 at Eindhoven in 1967 (CHE)
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- E-6 at Soesterberg in 1968 (CHE)
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- E-9 at Soesterberg in 1969 (HE)
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- E-10 at Soesterberg in 1969 (HE)
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- E-11 at Soesterberg in 1972 (HE)
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- E-12 at Volkel in 1970 (HE)
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- E-15 at an unknown location (CHE)
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- E-17 at Deelen in 1973 (CHE)
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- E-18 at Soesterberg in 1970 (HE)
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- E-20 at Eindhoven in 1966 (HE)
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- E-22 at Eindhoven in 1967 (HE)
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- E-24 at Gilze Rijen in 1972 (HE)
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- E-25 at Gilze Rijen in 1969 (HE)
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- E-27 at Eindhoven in 1971 (HE)
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- E-29 at Gilze Rijen in 1972 (HE)
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- E-30 at Deelen in 1970 (HE)
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- E-32 at Eindhoven in 1966 (HE)
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- E-39 at De Kooij in 1967 (CHE)
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