Warbird Information Exchange

Maybe not a warbird but the designer of the aircraft had plenty of warbird designs and the original pilot Kingsford Smith was a WW1 military pilot. The Fokker Replica Southern Cross has flown again downunder.
I have seen the photograph, and it looks lovely.

is this the same one i saw in 1989?

edit: just read the story and it is the same one i saw in Queensland.

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That's great news. Congratulations to all involved!

Very impressive!
Well done.

Isn't there an airworthy Fokker replica in Canada?

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CF-AAM, Fokker Super Universal - it's an original airframe restored from a wreck.

I understand it's now on museum display and hasn't been flown for several years.

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That's a shame. Stretching my memory a bit, doing a bit of leaflet lifting from London airline offices around 1976*, those lovely people at CP Air handed me a beautiful folder containing prints of the aircraft they'd flown either as CP or their predecessor companies. I think CF-AAM might well have been one of the aircraft featured. To my shame the folder disappeared. They'd be framed on my wall if not.

*In those days a 12 year old lad could travel up to and wander round the metropolis in apparent reasonable safety; my mum never minded where I disappeared off to so long as she knew where I was going and what time I'd be back by!

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Well whaddya know - no Fokker Super Universal, but I can buy a set... https://shorturl.at/irCIW Edit: Ah, yes, Fokker Universal G-CAGD is illustrated.

It wouldn't surprise me if it is the only Super Universal left, so perhaps a better option to keep it safely inside. Original wooden-winged Fokkers are pretty rare, with only a handful still around. Fokker F.VIIa at Aviodrome, The Netherlands, Southern Cross in Australia and there's a F.VII-3m at the Henry Ford museum if I'm not mistaken. That's from memory... so it wouldn't surprise me if I missed a few.

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Yes, there is a F.VII at the Ford museum.
It is the aircraft Byrd used on his arctic trip over the North Pole. It had "Josephine Ford" painted on the side as a tribute to expedition backer Henry Ford's, granddaughter.
I have always wondered how many people have seen it over the last 80+ years and with that signage assume it is a Ford Tri-Motor?
(People seem to think all tri-motor aircraft...at least prior to the 727 ....are Fords).

There is a Ford tri-motor parked nearby, it was used by Byrd to fly over the South Pole.

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One more Fokker: Wasn't the wreckage of F-10A NC279E recovered from the mountains near San Bernardino, CA a while back?

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