Overview page of Russian Fokkers

In and after 1923, a large number of Fokkers were supplied to Russia.

This was accompanied by many problems and misunderstandings on both sides.

In 2020-2021, Andrei Averin, an aviation historian from the Moscow suburb of Khimki, has published extensively on the career of the C.IV and the D.XI in the Soviet Union.

He wrote nine articles about this in the Russian model building magazine M-Hobby, illustrated with numerous previously unpublished photographs that he had found in the archives of the

RGVA, the Russian State Archives. They highlight a previously largely unknown aspect of Fokker history.


Thanks to René Demets who informed us of Andrej Averin's discoveries and provided the translation.


We will publish the photos with photo captions and provide a compact translation of the articles


Click on an image to go to the type's photo page

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The first series of Fokker C.IV, designated C-IV Prima in the Soviet Union. 60 examples, c/ns 2301 through 2360. Ordered in the spring of 1923, delivered in the fall of 1923.
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The C.IV as a civil aircraft in service with Dobrolet, among others
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A lot also went wrong with the D.XI.
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The arrival of the Dutch Fokker D.XI fighter aircraft in the armed forces caused a tangle of complex organisational, technical and purely defence-related problems.
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In the 1920s, 386 Fokkers flew in Russia.

Of these, 371 were built by Fokker. Fifteen D.XIs were added in Moscow.



See table below

Year aircraft type number
1920 Fokker D.VIII/ EV 2 captured during the Polish/Russian war
1922 Fokker D.VII 50 purchased by the Red Air Fleet
Fokker C.I. 3 purchased by the Red Air Fleet
Fokker F.III 10 bought by Deruluft
1923 Fokker C.III 12 purchased by the Red Air Fleet
Fokker S.II 2 purchased by the Red Air Fleet for evaluation
Fokker C.IV First 60 purchased by the Red Air Fleet
Fokker FV 1 rented by Deruluft and rejected
Fokker D.XI 1 purchased by the Red Air Fleet for evaluation
1924 Fokker C.IV Bis 50 purchased by the Red Air Fleet
Fokker D.XI 125 purchased by the Red Air Fleet
Fokker D.XIII 2 purchased by the Red Air Fleet for evaluation
1925 Fokker F.VII 1 rented by Deruluft and rejected
Fokker C.V A 1 purchased by the Red Air Fleet for evaluation
Fokker C.V B 1 purchased by the Red Air Fleet for evaluation
Fokker D.XIII 50 purchased by the German Wehrmacht; stationed in Lipetsk (Russia)
1928 Fokker D.XI 15 built in Moscow without the intervention of the Fokker factory
total 386