H-NAED
Fokker F.VIII
(c/n 5041)

H-NAED was one of 11 Fokker
F.VIIIs built (and three of those were built in Hungary by
Manfred Weiss).
When Gnome-Rhone in France began building the new Bristol Jupiter
engine
under licence, they were able to
boost it to a rating of 500
hp. Fokker decided, then, in the
F.VIII to eliminate the third
engine
(although it had originally been design as a tri-motor) and
were able
to use the
nose section as an additional baggage hold. H-NAED was
re-registered
PH-AED in 1929
and then went to the Dutch Antilles
as PJ-AED in 1937, (see image below
taken in
Curacao in 1938). In 1939 some reason this was changed to PJ-AID
in
1939, but
very soon
afterward (April 1939) it was sold in Venezuela,
although was written off after a'
very
short while on the LV- register.
