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The Fokker 70 is a narrow-body, twin-engined, medium-range, turbofan regional airliner designed and produced by the now defunct Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker. It was developed during the early 1990s as a smaller version of the newly-developed Fokker 100 .
This engine also had a new combustor for improved durability. [3] The Tay family is used on a number of airliners and larger business jets, including the Gulfstream IV family, Fokker 70 and Fokker 100, with a later version being used to re-engine Boeing 727-100s.
Initial sales of the Fokker 100 were good, leading Fokker to begin development of the Fokker 70, a smaller version of the F100, in 1991, but sales of the F70 were below expectations and the F100 had strong competition from Boeing and Airbus by then. The Dutch government aircraft between 1996 and 2017 was a Fokker 70. [7]
The Fokker 70 is a shortened variant that can hold up to 85 passengers, developed for shorter routes, which first flew in April of 1993. The program was announced in 1983 and it made its maiden flight on 30 November 1986. The variant was approved on 20 November 1987, and first deliveries to Swissair started in February 1988.
A major revision was the F28-4000, which was powered by quieter Rolls-Royce Spey 555-15H engines, a redesigned cockpit, and a modified wing, and had a further increased seating capacity up to 85 passengers. During 1987, production of the type was terminated in favour of two newer derivatives, the Fokker 70 and the larger Fokker 100.
As of July 2024 Embraer has delivered 3034 regional jets, between the ERJ family and the still in production E-Jet/E-Jet E2 [1] [2] The Sud Aviation Caravelle short-haul jet airliner was the first regional jet introduced in 1959 The Yakovlev Yak-40 was introduced in 1968 The Fokker F-28 was introduced in 1969 and was followed by the stretched Fokker 100 in 1988 and its Fokker 70 shrink in 1994.
The following is a list of commercial short-haul civilian passenger "regional" airliners with significant build numbers.Regional airliners typically seat fewer than 100 passengers and fill the short-hop role in the hub and spoke model of passenger and cargo distribution as well as taking part in point-to-point transit and fly up to 810 miles.
The last Fokker 70 was scheduled to leave on 29 October 2017. [3] The deal with Embraer saw an acceleration of the Fokker 70 withdrawal, starting in December 2015, and the arrival of two more Embraer 190 aircraft, bringing that fleet to 30 in total. 7 Fokker 70s were sold to Air Niugini, with four going to Cypriot carrier Tus Airways and two to ...