An item reported that the Royal Netherlands Navy took over a range of 6 Fokker T.IV planes fitted out with 460 hp Lorraine-Dietrich engines and shipped them to the Dutch East Indies. He T.1 a test plane of this design was already a year earlier taken into service in the Dutch East Indies. At that moment was the navy test a range of 11 Fokker C.VIII float planes also destined for the Dutch East Indies. These planes were fitted out with 235 hp Siddely Lynx engines and their class name started with the letter V. It was the intention to replace the W.A. planes of the Hansa-Brandenburg design used in the Netherlands and in the Dutch East Indies used as training planes by this V-class. In the Netherlands were around 20 and in the Dutch East Indies 12 needed. It was expected that in September the first 5 planes of this class came available for service in the Netherlands. At the end of the years was the 3 persons see float plane to be tested. Fitted out with a 460 hp Lorraine Dietrich engine were they to be built by the Fokker plant with the class name C. VIII W with a weight of 1.700 (empty)-2.500 (loaded) kilo’s. To be used while cooperating with the fleet and advanced training of pilots and observers. The intention was to order 6 of these planes if the testing was successful.
