Mogelijk was dat toestel een van de 3 onverkochte?
Beneden het verhaal van nr. 4 - die stond in 1940 op Schiphol, uiteindelijk toch in die polder terecht gekomen? vragen vragen..
Of the four F.K.26 produced, only one had been sold. The G-EAPK bought in 1920 by Instone Airline, flew a regular service between Croydon and Paris until July 1922.
In 1937 the prototype of the F.K.26 was found back at Ogilvy Aviation, a trader in second hand aircraft and parts. Frederick Koolhoven brought the aircraft to his factory in The Netherlands, had it restored and donated it to the Dutch Aviation Museum at airport Schiphol in 1938.
After the invasion in 1940, all aircraft and parts had to be handed over to the Germans who either re-used or destroyed the material. About ten aircraft from Schiphol, including the F.K.26 prototype, were loaded on flat deck boats to be transported to the Fokker factory in the north of Amsterdam. The boats were hidden in the polder where their cargo was safe for the RAF ground attacks, but not for a group of locals who decided not to let 'them' have it. By night, the F.K.26 prototype has been pushed overboard, along with the other aircraft.
Until today, this historical aircraft lies in its grave, deep in the soil of a Dutch polder.