Fokker D.VII

Fokker D.VII
Fokker D.VII reproduction at the NMUSAF. The aircraft is painted in the colors of Leutnant Rudolf Stark of Jasta 35b
General information
Type	Fighter
Manufacturer	Fokker-Flugzeugwerke
Designer	Reinhold Platz
Primary user	Luftstreitkräfte
Number built	approximately 3,300
History
First flight	January 1918

The Fokker D.VII was a German World War I fighter aircraft designed by Reinhold Platz of the Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. Germany produced around 3,300 D.VII aircraft in the second half of 1918. In service with the Luftstreitkräfte, the D.VII quickly proved itself to be a formidable aircraft. The Armistice ending the war specifically required, as the fourth clause of the "Clauses Relating to the Western Front", that Germany was required to surrender all D.VIIs to the Allies.^[1] Surviving aircraft saw much service with many countries in the years after World War I.