Fokker T-2 US Army Air Service-non-stop flight cross country

1923 ... First Cross Country Flight by Lt Oakly Kelly and 1st lt John Macready USAS
was the first cargo aircraft planned and built in the Netherlands with hopes that the airline companies would order it. But the huge plane proved to be a miscalculation and Fokker sold both finished planes to the US Army Air Service for use as cargo planes.
The T-2 would probably have been forgotton if it had not unexpectedly set a world record. On May 2 1923, Lt Oakly Kelly and First Lt John McReady took off from New York on a flight to San Diego and landed after 26 hours and 50 minutes and 38 seconds in the air.
Here's another classic from world class designer, Chauncy Green. He remembers seeing it somewhere as a kid and just never quite got over it. You won't either.

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Purchase Information $5.95 Shown above is the regular version of the Fokker T-2.. When you order this beautie, you get a larger 18" span version as well Back to Between the Wars

A sampling of the regular sized Fokker T-2

What people say... C Greens's T2 is going to be a nice addition to your BETWEEN THE WARS collection. Got a feeling the folks are going to be really happy with that one. Rob Carleen 7/05 Really great work. The artwork is stunning. Your packaging is top notch as well. It really cries "build me". Dan Shiply Thank you very much, great model...this is one of America´s great flights, you make justice to it. Will soon update my page with a special Chapter " Paper Great Planes...Little known"...this model will enhance it!!!!!!! Ciao Gerardo Chauncey had asked that I do a beta for him on the Fokker.......I think you may have mentioned that on the model's biography page! As always I subsituted the rubber o rings for the tires and made the prop to spin. I don't see how the pilots flew the contraption, being offset like it was.......trying to line it up would be a heckuva lineup job .....anyway it is beautiful as always! Col Duckworth Hola dude. The new T-2 is a beauty...and a Model 299 in the wings? I can't wait. ..Munchas Garcias!! Anthony Sanchez I know this guy very well. I was a docent at the National Air and Space Museum from '76 to '85, and the T-2 was in the mezzanine above the entrance along with Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega, the Douglas M-2 World Cruiser, Billy Mitchell's Schneider Cup Racer (Curtis R3C2), and Lindbergh's Lockheed Sirius. It would be neat to cut out the side windows and put in the rear control station with a very large circular wheel, as well as a large fuel tank. You might consider models of all of the aircraft in this "explorers" gallery at NASM. Dave Finkleman The Fokker T-2 with the cockpit details is fantastic. But . . . the color on the wings would be as she hangs in the museum now. In the 1920's, the ground crew types would have had plenty of time to keep her wings painted to regs - the same yellow as you have on the Curtiss J4N "Jenny" (nag-nag-nag!). John Hi John, Chauncy here. Thanks for your feedback. In regards to the T-2 wing color; there is not any documentation to show that the T-2's wing was ever painted to reg yellow. Conversely, period photos and documentation from the modifications done prior to the cross-country attempts at McCook Field clearly show and describe the Russian Birch plywood wing skin only being given only a protective coat of "Valspar" varnish. No doubt, had these birds have worked out and the Army bought more, your speculation would be plausible.