The Fokker F27 Friendship is a turboprop airliner designed and built by the defunct Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker.
- Role: airliner
- National origin: Netherlands
- Manufacturer: Fokker
- First flight: 24 November 1955
- Introduction: 19 November 1958
- Status: Out of production, in service
- Produced: 1986-1997
- Number built: 586
- Developed from: Fokker F27 Friendship
- Variants: Fairchild F-27/FH-227
- Developed into: Fokker 50, Fokker 60
Military variants
- F27-300M Troopship – Military transport version for Royal Netherlands Air Force
- F27-400M – Military version for US Army with designation C-31A Troopship
- F27-500M – Military version
- F27 200-MAR – Unarmed maritime reconnaissance version
- F27 Maritime Enforcer – Armed maritime reconnaissance version
Military operators
- Algerian Air Force
- Angolan Air Force
- Argentine Air Force
- Royal Australian Navy
- Biafran Air Force
- Bolivian Air Force
- Burmese Air Force (Became Myanmar Air Force)
- Chad Air Force
- Government of Chad
- Cote d’Ivoire Air Force
- Ecuadorian Air Force
- Finnish Air Force
- French Air Force
- Sécurité Civile France
- Ghana Air Force
- Guatemalan Air Force
- Icelandic Coast Guard
- Indian Coast Guard
- Indonesian Air Force
- Iranian government
- Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force
- Italian Air Force
- Mexican Navy
- Royal Netherlands Air Force
- Royal Netherlands Navy
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
- Nigerian Air Force
- North Yemen Air Force
- Pakistan Naval Air Arm
- Peruvian Navy
- Philippine Air Force
- Philippine Navy
- Senegalese Air Force
- Senegambia Air Force
- Spanish Air Force
- Sudanese Air Force
- Royal Thai Navy
- United States Army Parachute Team
- United States Navy
- Uruguayan Air Force
- Yemen Air Force
Specifications (F.27)
General characteristics
- Crew: 2 or 3
- Capacity: 48-56 passengers
- Length: 25.06 m (82 ft 3 in)
- Wingspan: 29 m (95 ft 2 in)
- Height: 8.72 m (28 ft 7 in)
- Wing area: 70 m2 (750 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 11,204 kg (24,701 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 19,773 kg (43,592 lb)
- Powerplant: 2 × Rolls-Royce Dart Mk.532-7 two-stage centrifugal compressor turboprop, 1,678 kW (2,250 hp) each
Performance
- Cruising speed: 460 km/h (286 mph; 248 kn)
- Range: 2,600 km (1,616 mi; 1,404 nmi)
- Rate of climb: 7.37 m/s (1,451 ft/min)