Fokker F100

British Midland Airways Fokker 100
Type	Regional airliner
Manufacturer	Fokker
Maiden flight	November 30, 1986
Introduced	February 1988 with Swissair
Status	Active service
Primary users	TAM Linhas Aéreas (19) KLM Cityhopper (18) Austrian Arrows (16) Click Mexicana (15) dba (14) Brit Air (13)
Produced	1986-1997
Number built	283

The Fokker F100 is a small twin-turbofan regional airliner from the Fokker company. Low operational costs and almost no modern competition in the 100-seat short-range class made it a best seller when it was introduced in the late 1980s, but improved models of the Boeing 737 and Airbus A319 and 318 squeezed it into a niche and Fokker was soon insolvent. Production ended in 1997 with 283 airframes delivered. Fokker 100 (G-BXWF) of bmi (British Midland Airways) on the approach to London (Heathrow) Airport (UK). ... Flybe Bombardier Q400 Régional ERJ 145 operating for Air France A regional airliner is a small airliner designed to fly between 35 and 100 passengers from point to point as efficiently as possible. ... An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft. ... Fokker 100 of British Midland Airways For the physicist and musician, see Adriaan Fokker. ... The Maiden flight of an aircraft is the first occasion on which an aircraft leaves the ground of its own accord. ... November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days remaining. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Swissair MD-11 Swissair, short for Swiss Air Transport Company Limited, was Switzerlands national airline for 71 years (1931–2002), established when the airlines Belair and Ad Astra Aero (To the Stars) merged. ... TAM Linhas Aereas is an airline based in São Paulo, Brazil. ... KLM Cityhopper is the regional arm of KLM based at Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. ... Austrian Arrows is an airline based in Innsbruck, Austria, a member of the Austrian Airlines Group and the Star Alliance. ... Click Mexicana is a low-cost airline based in Mexico. ... DBA has several meanings: database administrator (or analyst) De Bellis Antiquitatis, a tabletop wargame. ... Brit Air is an airline based at Morlaix in France and has a fleet of 41 aircraft. ... CFM56-3 turbofan, lower half, side view. ... Flybe Bombardier Q400 Régional ERJ 145 operating for Air France A regional airliner is a small airliner designed to fly between 35 and 100 passengers from point to point as efficiently as possible. ... Fokker 100 of British Midland Airways For the physicist and musician, see Adriaan Fokker. ... The Boeing 737 is the worlds most popular medium range - narrow body commercial passenger jet aircraft. ... The Airbus A320 is a short-to-medium range commercial passenger aircraft manufactured by Airbus. ... The Airbus A320 is a short-to-medium range commercial passenger aircraft manufactured by Airbus. ...

History

The F100 design was announced in 1983 as an updated replacement for Fokker's popular, but outdated, F28 Fellowship design. The most noticeable difference was the much longer fuselage, which almost doubled the seating from 65 in the original F28 series to 107 in a three-by-two single-class arrangement. Fokker also introduced a redesigned wing for the F100, which they claimed was 30% more efficient in cruise. The engines were upgraded to the modern Rolls-Royce Tay turbofans, while the cockpit was updated with an all-glass instrumentation package. The Fokker F28 Fellowship is a short range jet airliner designed and built by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker. ... The Tay name is given to two Rolls-Royce jet engines. ... CFM56-3 turbofan, lower half, side view. ... A Glass cockpit is an aircraft cockpit that features electronic instrument displays. ...

Two prototypes were built. The first, PH-MKH, flew for the first time on November 30, 1986, and the second, PH-MKC, followed on February 25, 1987. The type certificate was awarded in November 1987. Testing went smoothly and the first deliveries of the Tay 650-15 powered versions started to Swissair in February 1988. American Airlines (75 planes ordered), TAM (50 planes) and US Airways (40 planes) were major customers of the F100. November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days remaining. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Swissair MD-11 Swissair, short for Swiss Air Transport Company Limited, was Switzerlands national airline for 71 years (1931–2002), established when the airlines Belair and Ad Astra Aero (To the Stars) merged. ... American Airlines and American Eagle aircraft at San Juan American Airlines is the largest airline in the world in terms of total passengers transported and fleet size, and the second-largest airline in the world (behind Air France-KLM) in terms of total operating revenues. ... Look up tam in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A US Airways 737 at Chicago-OHare US Airways is an airline based in Tempe, Arizona, owned by US Airways Group, Inc. ...

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By 1991, Fokker had already produced 70 units and had orders for a total of more than 230. An extended range version with additional fuel tanks in the wings was introduced in 1993, and a quick-change passenger/freighter version in 1994, the F100QC. A shorter version was introduced in 1993 as a direct replacement for the earlier F28, known as the Fokker 70, which removed 4.70 m of the fuselage and reduced seating to 80. Studies on the 130 seat F130 and the Fokker 100QC (freighter) did not reach further stages of development. A Fokker 100EJ (Executive Jet) has been introduced in 2003 as a conversion from used Fokker 100 aircraft. The Fokker F28 Fellowship is a short range jet airliner designed and built by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker. ... Categories: Stub | Dutch airliners 1990-1999 ...

Although the design was a success in the marketplace, Fokker continued to lose massive amounts of money due to mismanagement. Eventually their parent company, Daimler Benz Aerospace, gave up and shut them down. Fokker collapsed financially in 1996, and wound up production in early 1997. There had been some discussion about the company being purchased by Bombardier, but the plans fell through. This is particularly ironic given that Bombardier is currently scrambling to produce a new 130 seat design to compete with Embraer's latest aircraft (in 2004). Luftwaffe Tornado ECR Founded May 19, 1989 as Deutsche Aerospace AG, bundling space and aeronautic elements of Daimler-Benz (including Dornier Luftfahrt), Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB), MTU München, and Telefunken Systemtechnik (TST). ... Bombardier Inc. ... Embraer, the Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica S.A. is a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer. ...

An Amsterdam-based group, Rekkof Restart (Rekkof is Fokker spelled backwards) started negotiating to re-open the Fokker 70 and F100 lines in 1999, but the deal never completed. But there are still talking about the possibility to re-open the Fokker 70 production line. Like any number of designs, the F70/F100 was being increasingly squeezed from below by stretched versions of the Bombardier and Embraer regional jets, which also killed off plans for the Fairchild JET and an unnamed design from ATR. Amsterdam Location Flag Country Netherlands Province North Holland Population 742,951(1 January 2005) Demonym Amsterdammer Coordinates Website www. ... Categories: Stub | Dutch airliners 1990-1999 ... SN Brussels Airlines Avro RJ85 Air France ERJ 145 A regional jet (RJ) is a small jet aircraft that is intended to fly passengers from point to point as efficiently as possible. ... The Italian-French based aircraft manufacturer Avions de Transport Régional (ATR) was formed in 1981, from the consortium formed by Aérospatiale of France (now EADS) and Aeritalia ( now Alenia Aeronautica), of Italy companies. ...

Success Stories

A Jetairfly Fokker F100

A Flight West Fokker F100

Mexican low-cost airline Click Mexicana expressed in September 2005 that it got six percent of the domestic market after less than three months in operation. According to the Chief Executive of Click Mexicana this was partly because its ten Fokker 100 jets are modern and fuel-efficient. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1014x628, 53 KB) Summary Fokker 100 of Jetairfly. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1014x628, 53 KB) Summary Fokker 100 of Jetairfly. ... Jetairfly is an airline based in Belgium. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x586, 147 KB) A Flight West Fokker F100 at Brisbane Airport, Australia. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x586, 147 KB) A Flight West Fokker F100 at Brisbane Airport, Australia. ... Flight West Airlines was an Australian regional airline operating predominantly in Queensland in the 1990’s. ... Click Mexicana is a low-cost airline based in Mexico. ...

Crashes and Incidents

• On 5 March 1993, the pilot of a Palair Macedonian Airlines F100 lost control and crashed near Skopje, Macedonia, in an early climb due to icing. Four of the six crew and 77 of the 91 passengers were killed.
• In 1996, a problem in a thrust reverser caused one F100 of the Brazilian airline TAM to crash in São Paulo shortly after take-off, killing 95 and 4 on the ground.
• In 1997, an unexplained explosion fatally blew a passenger out of a TAM Fokker 100 during flight.
• In 2001, two cabin windows shattered on a TAM Fokker 100 due to an engine breakup, and the resulting depressurization killed one of the 82 passengers on board.
• On August 8, 2006, a front door of a TAM flight came off a few minutes after takeoff at the Congonhas International Airport, in São Paulo, Brazil. The accident had no serious repercussions, since the cabin had not been pressurized yet and the pilot was able to circle back and land at Congonhas again. The door fell approximately 450 meters (1,470 feet) and collapsed on the roof of a supermarket, causing no major damage.

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Specifications

General characteristics

• Wing span: 28.8 m
• Horizontal stabilizer span: 10.04 m
• Overall Length: 35.3 m
• Overall Height: 8.6 m
• Fuselage diameter: 3.30 m
• Gross weight: 44.5 tonnes
• Engines: 2x Rolls-Royce Tay Mk. 650-15, 15,100 lbf (67 kN) thrust
• Passenger capacity: 85 to 122, 107 typical
• Crew: 2 flight crew, 2 to 3 cabin crew

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Performance

• Maximum altitude: 37,000 ft (11,300 m)
• Speed (long range cruise): 755 km/h (0.72 Mach)
• Speed (high speed cruise): 845 km/h (0.77 Mach)
• Range: 4,300 km (4,750 km in the ER versions)

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Current Operators

• Aero Mongolia
• Air Affaires Gabon
• Air Bagan
• Air Berlin
• Air France
• Air Niugini
• Alliance Airlines
• Alpi Eagles
• Austrian (In the Austrian Arrows Subsidiary)
• Avianca
• Blue Line
• Brit Air
• Canadian North
• Carpatair
• Click Mexicana
• Cosmic Air
• dba
• GAE Aviation
• Germania Fluggesellschaft
• Helvetic Airways
• HLX.com
• Inter Airlines
• Iran Air
• Iran Aseman Airlines
• IRS Airlines
• Jetairfly
• KLM Cityhopper
• Mandarin Airlines
• Moldavian Airlines
• Montenegro Airlines
• OceanAir
• Portugalia
• Pt Caltex Pacific Indonesia
• Pt Pelita Air Service
• Pt Transwisata Prima Aviation]]
• Regional, Compagnie Aerienne Europe
• Skywest Airlines (Australia)
• Slovak Airlines
• TAM Airlines
• Trade Air
• TUI Airlines Belgium
• Tyrolean Airways
• Wayra Peru

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External links

• Future100 Executive Jet
• Rekkof Project
• Fokker F100 info
• Fokker 100 Operators Worldwide

See also

• Fokker
• Fokker 70
• List of civil aircraft.

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