✈️ Fokker F27 Friendship (Netherlands): step-by-step build

A Dutch high-wing airliner with two propeller engines and big round windows.

The Fokker F27 Friendship is a propeller airliner from the Netherlands, built in large numbers to carry passengers between smaller airports. Its wing sits on top of the body with an engine on each side. This is a Technic-parts model inspired by it, not a real aeroplane: white, blue and orange beams make the colours, and each propeller turns freely on its own axle.

• Level 3 of 5 (medium)
• About 45 minutes
• 27 steps, 87 parts
• Powered by: Push
• Series: Aircraft from 21 Countries

What you will learn

• Pins: Grippy or Smooth: Pins join beams together — some hold tight, some let things swing.
• Triangles Are Strong: A triangle cannot be squished — a square can.
• Axles: An axle is a cross-shaped rod — anything on it turns together.
• Axles & Wheels: A wheel on an axle turns dragging into rolling.

Parts you need

• 1 × Beam 15
• 27 × Black pin (grippy)
• 1 × Beam 11
• 18 × Blue long pin
• 5 × L-beam 3×5
• 4 × L-beam 2×4
• 1 × Beam 13
• 1 × Boomerang beam 3×7
• 6 × Beam 5
• 3 × Beam 3
• 2 × Beam 9
• 6 × Beam 7
• 2 × Long pin-axle block
• 3 × Axle 3
• 3 × Bush
• 1 × Axle 6
• 3 × Train wheel

Steps

1. Lay the floor of the fuselage: take a white 15-hole beam, then push 2 black pins in and press a blue 11-hole beam onto them.
2. Lay the floor of the fuselage: push 2 blue long pins in and press a white 3×5 L-beam (short leg down: the nose-wheel leg) onto them.
3. Add the roots of the tail and the landing-gear legs: push 1 black pin and 1 blue long pin in and press a light grey 2×4 L-beam (short leg up) onto them.
4. Add the roots of the tail and the landing-gear legs: push 1 black pin and 1 blue long pin in and press a light grey 2×4 L-beam (short leg up) onto them.
5. Add the roots of the tail and the landing-gear legs: push 2 black pins in and press a light grey 3×5 L-beam (short leg down: a landing-gear leg) onto them.
6. Add the roots of the tail and the landing-gear legs: push 2 black pins in and press a light grey 3×5 L-beam (short leg down: a landing-gear leg) onto them, then slide a light grey 2×4 L-beam (short leg up) onto the blue pins that stick out.
7. Add the roots of the tail and the landing-gear legs: push 2 black pins in and press a light grey 2×4 L-beam (short leg up) onto them.
8. Build the top of the fuselage and the tail fin: push 2 black pins in and press a white 13-hole beam onto them.
9. Build the top of the fuselage and the tail fin: push 1 black pin and 1 blue long pin in and press a blue boomerang beam (its bent end leans back: the tail fin) onto them.
10. Build the top of the fuselage and the tail fin: push 2 blue long pins in and press a white 5-hole beam onto them.
11. Build the top of the fuselage and the tail fin: push 1 black pin and 1 blue long pin in and press a black 3-hole beam (the cockpit windows) onto them.
12. Build the top of the fuselage and the tail fin: push 2 black pins in and press a orange 5-hole beam leaning back along the fin onto them.
13. Fix the wing roots on top of the fuselage: slide a white 9-hole beam onto the blue pins that stick out, then push 2 blue long pins in and press a white 9-hole beam onto them.
14. Build the tailplanes: push 1 black pin in and press a orange 5-hole beam onto them, then push 1 black pin in and press a orange 5-hole beam onto them.
15. Build the right wing and its engines: push 1 black pin and 1 blue long pin in and press a white 7-hole beam onto them.
16. Build the right wing and its engines: push 1 blue long pin in and press a white 3-hole beam onto them.
17. Build the right wing and its engines: push 2 blue long pins in and press a orange 3×5 L-beam (short leg down: an engine) onto them, then slide a white 7-hole beam onto the blue pins that stick out.
18. Build the right wing and its engines: push 2 black pins in and press a blue 7-hole beam onto them.
19. Build the left wing and its engines: slide a white 7-hole beam onto the blue pins that stick out, then push 2 blue long pins in and press a white 3-hole beam onto them.
20. Build the left wing and its engines: push 2 blue long pins in and press a orange 3×5 L-beam (short leg down: an engine) onto them, then slide a white 7-hole beam onto the blue pins that stick out.
21. Build the left wing and its engines: push 2 black pins in and press a blue 7-hole beam onto them.
22. Fit the propellers: push 2 black pins into the upright leg and press the long pin-axle block onto them.
23. Fit the propellers: push an axle into the block, slide on the black propeller beam and lock it on with a bush (the propeller spins freely on the axle).
24. Fit the propellers: push 2 black pins into the upright leg and press the long pin-axle block onto them.
25. Fit the propellers: push an axle into the block, slide on the black propeller beam and lock it on with a bush (the propeller spins freely on the axle).
26. Put on the wheels: push a 6-long axle through both legs and put a wheel on each end.
27. Put on the wheels: push a 3-long axle through the leg, with a wheel on one side and a bush on the other.

Play time

Blow on the propellers to spin them, then fly the plane around the room in your hand!

Real-world inspiration

Fokker F27 Friendship, the Dutch twin-turboprop high-wing airliner.

Credited demonstrations and component sources

• Fokker F27 Friendship — Wikipedia: Public reference for the real aircraft's shape and colours; this is a Technic-parts model inspired by it, not a flying or tested replica.