Airdrome Fokker D-VI

The Airdrome Fokker D-VI is an American amateur-built aircraft, designed and produced by Airdrome Aeroplanes, of Holden, Missouri. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.
The aircraft is a 3/4 scale replica of the First World War German Fokker D.VI fighter, built from modern materials and powered by modern engines.
Design and development.
The Airdrome Fokker D-VI features a strut-braced biplane layout, a single-seat open cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. The kit is made up of twelve sub-kits. The Airdrome Fokker D-VI has a wingspan of and a wing area of . It can be equipped with engines ranging from . The standard engine is the Rotax 503 two stroke engine, with a Volkswagen air-cooled engine optional. Building time from the factory-supplied kit is estimated at 400 hours by the manufacturer.
Operational history.
Fourteen examples had been completed by December 2011.