What is Fokker F27 Friendship?
{|{{Infobox Aircraft Begin |name =F27 Friendship |image =File:Icelandair Fokker F-27-200 Friendship Wallner.jpg |caption = An F27-200 in Iceland (1989) }}{{Infobox Aircraft Type |type = Airliner |manufacturer = [[Fokker]] |national origin=Netherlands |designer = |first flight = 24 November [[1955 in aviation|1955]] |introduced = 19 November 1958 |produced = 1955–1987 |retired = |status = Out of production, in active service |primary user = |more users = |number built =586 |unit cost = -500: US$1.6M (1972)<ref>{{cite magazine |url= https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1972/1972%20-%202020.html |title= Airliner price index |magazine= Flight International |date= 10 August 1972 |page= 183}}</ref> |developed from = |variants with their own articles = [[Fairchild Hiller FH-227|Fairchild F-27/FH-227]] |developed into = [[Fokker 50]] }} |} '''Fokker F27 Friendship''' is a twin-[[engine|turboprop]] [[airliner]] built in [[Netherlands]]. It was designed to replace [[Douglas C-47 Skytrain|Douglas DC-3]]'s airliners. It can carry between 48 and 56 [[passenger|passengers]]. [[Fairchild FH-227]] is an [[United States|American]] licence-built variant, and [[Fokker 50]] is a modernized variant. Some of them were acquired by [[military|militaries]] as [[cargo aircraft]]. ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:Civil aircraft]] [[Category:Fokker aircraft]] {{transport-stub}}