The Fokker Super Universal was an airliner produced in the United States in the late 1920s by Fokker America, an enlarged and improved version of the Fokker Universal, fitted with cantilever wings and an enclosed cockpit. It was also called the Model 8. It was subsequently also manufactured under license in Canada, and in Japan as the Nakajima-Fokker Super Universal and for the IJAAF as the Nakajima Ki-6 and later in the puppet state of Manchukuo as the Manshū Super Universal. It was used on the Byrd Antarctic expedition and was one of the most produced of the Fokker America models.
Fokker Super Universal
Fokker Super Universal airplane docked in a nose hangar, Ontario, [ca. 1925]
Fokker Super Universal of the Bryd Antarctic expedition of 1929
Fokker Super Universal in Alberta, Canada 1935. The person is famous Canadian aviator Leigh Brintnell
The Fokker Universal was the first aircraft built in the United States that was based on the designs of Dutch-born Anthony Fokker, who had designed aircraft for Germany during World War I. About half of the 44 Universals that were built between 1926 and 1931 in the United States were used in Canada. Among the famous pilots who flew the Fokker Universal were Punch Dickins and Walter Gilbert.
Fokker Universal
Prototype of the US-developed Fokker Universal
A Universal operated by the Aero Corporation of California.
The airframe proved suitable as a seaplane outfitted with floats.