The Fokker F27 Friendship is a turboprop airliner developed and manufactured by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker. It is the most numerous post-war aircraft manufactured in the Netherlands; the F27 was also one of the most successful European airliners of its era.
Fokker F27 Friendship
Early concept art of the F27
The first F27 prototype, registration PH-NIV
Second F27 prototype under construction in 1956.
A turboprop is a turbine engine that drives an aircraft propeller.
GE T64 turboprop, with the propeller on the left, the gearbox with accessories in the middle, and the gas generator (turbine) on the right
A Rolls-Royce RB.50 Trent on a test rig at Hucknall, in March 1945
The Kuznetsov NK-12 is the most powerful turboprop to enter service
A military transport aircraft, over 2,500 Lockheed C-130 Hercules have been built