Kolbenmotorflugzeug

Passagierflugzeug Fokker F VIIa (F-VIIa) der Swissair, Immatrikulation CH-157, HB-LBO

Dating

1927

Persons

Balair (Basler Luftverkehrs A.G. Balair, Basler Air Transport) (1925 - 1931), Betreiber/in Vorbild, archivalisch belegt

Swissair (1931 - 2002), Betreiber/in, archivalisch belegt

Curtiss-Wright Corporation (1929), Hersteller/in Motor, archivalisch belegt

N.V. Nederlandsche Vliegtuigenfabriek Fokker (1919 - 1996), Hersteller/in, archivalisch belegt

Description

Passagierflugzeug Fokker F VIIa der Swissair, Immatrikulation CH-157, HB-LBO: einmotorig, 1927: Gnôme + Rhône Jupiter-IV (420 PS), 1933: Wright-Cyclone R-1820-E (500 PS), 1939: Wright-Cyclone R-1820-F (720 PS) - Tankinhalt: 1927: 720 l, 1933: 1050 l - Hochdecker - Flügelfläche: 58.5 m2 - Flächenbelastung: 61.5 kg.m2 - Flugstunden Zelle, insgesamt: 5392.40 - Flugstunden Motor, insgesamt: 1302.30 - Leistungsbelastung: 5.0 kg/PS - Reisegeschwindigkeit: 185 km/h, minimale Reisegeschwindigkeit: 80 km/h Jungfernflug: 1924 - Einsatz BALAIR: April 1927 - März 1931, anschliessend bei Swissair im Europa-Streckendienst bis 1939, bis 1948 Einsatz für Schul- Rund- und Keuchhustenflüge - Anschaffungspreis im Jahre 1927: 90000 Fr. Besatzung: 1 Pilot und 1 Funker - bis 1938: 8, nachher 10 Passagiere - Anzahl gebauter Flugzeuge: zirka 200 (inklusive dreimotorige Versionen)

Signature / Inscription

Signatur / Beschriftung: Beschriftung: "HB - LBO", "Swissair"

Object type

Object (three-dimensional)

Geography

Place of manufacture: Niederlande

Material / Technique

Gemischtbau (Holz, Stahl, Stoff), Stoffbespannung

Dimensions

1450 x 1930 x 390 cm 2378 kg maximales Startgewicht: 3600 kg

Inventory number

VHS-3836

Rights

Quellennachweis: Verkehrshaus der Schweiz, Luzern

Legend

Fokker F-VIIa Grandfather’s Comfortable Passenger’ Plane Athony H.G. Fokker (*1890) built top-class fighter during the First World War, among them that triplane made famous by the “Red Baron” Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen. From 1918 onwards Fokker concentrated on the construction of passenger aeroplanes. His greatest success was the Fokker F-VII (later F-VIIa) first produced in 1924. It seated eight, from 1938, ten passengers and offered them a level of comfort till then unknown in air travel. And with its sensational operational range of 800 km, it was possible to undertake flights over distances considered impossible until then. Fokker was able to sell 42 machines, three of them to the Swiss Balair. The oldest of these three aeroplanes bore the identification mark CH-157; when Balair and Ad Astra Aero were combined in 1931, the plane was transferred to Swissair. In 1925 the Fokker F-VIIa-3m, with three engines but otherwise a practically identical version, made its appearance. It set up various world records, achieved a number of “premiers” and soon became the standard passenger aircraft of its day.