The F.XIV is one of two aircraft in the F Series that never carried any passengers. Both the F.XIV and the F.XIV-3m will be explained here as it is only one aircraft.

In the case of the first European passenger aircraft, only passengers' luggage was taken into account by setting up an area at the back of the cabin and no consideration was made for freight. There was also often a small space for mail.

Fokker constructor Reinhold Platz designed the F.XIV for transporting large pieces of cargo. The plane was completed in February 1929.

On the 22nd, Emil Meinecke made the first flight from Schiphol with this aircraft, which was equipped with one Gnome Rhône Jupiter engine of 450 hp.

The cargo hold was 5 meters long, 1.80 meters wide and 1.50 meters high (13.5 cubic meters).

After some modifications to the aircraft, including enlarging of the elevator and the stabilo , the aircraft made another flight on March 8th, 1929.



KLM and other airlines were not interested in such an aircraft. Fokker hoped to increase the opportunities of the aircraft by turning it into a three-engine passenger aircraft.

The Jupiter engine gave way to 3 Lorraine Algol 9 engines, of 370 hp each. Windows and eight seats were installed in the cabin. After the renovation, the aircraft was referred to as F.XIV-3m. However, no passenger ever flew in the F.XIV-3m.

The F.XIV-3m found its final destination in a playground near restaurant-teahouse "Soesterdal", near airbase Soesterberg in 1935. The Germans destroyed this former freighter in the early days of May, 1940.
 
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