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The maximum dive speed was 540 km/h, which enabled it to break away from the Soviet I-153 and I-16 fighters. There were 29 of them in combat units, the "Frans-Kalle" was slow but possessed a robust airframe, making it a useful asset. The C.X was the most important short-range reconnaissance aircraft and dive bomber of the Finnish Air Force at the outbreak of the Winter War.
The Finnish C.Xs served with distinction in the Winter War, the Continuation War and the Lapland War. Two C.Xs and their crews escaped to France after the Dutch surrender. The tactic of "hugging the ground" allowed the C.Xs to achieve some success. Operational history ĭuring the German attack on the Netherlands in May 1940, the C.Xs served in their intended role as scouts and light bombers.
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in Great Britain got a license to build C.Xs for the British market as the Airspeed AS.22, but no orders were received. These C.Xs were equipped with Bristol Pegasus XII engines.Īirspeed Ltd. The Finns also license-produced 35 C.Xs until 1942. Two C.Xs were delivered to the Spanish Republic, and four more to Finland. These four were later re-equipped with Kestrel V engines the Kestrel IIS proved not very reliable. The Dutch Air Force ordered 16 C.Xs, and later four more with Kestrel IIS engines.
Until the Japanese attack on the Dutch East Indies in 1941, the C.X remained in use as a trainer and target tug. The East Indies Army ordered 13 C.Xs, but they were soon replaced in the scout/light bomber role by the American Martin B-10s. The prototype was built in 1934 with a Rolls-Royce Kestrel V engine. Like all Fokker aircraft of that time, it was of mixed construction, with wooden wing structures and a welded steel tube frame covered with aluminium plates at the front of the aircraft and with fabric at the rear. The Fokker C.X was originally designed for the Royal Dutch East Indies Army, in order to replace the Fokker C.V.
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