The Universal (no F designation) was the first type by the Atlantic Fokker company and lacked the cantilever wing of the European Fokkers, but fulfilled the needs of American aviation companies at the time. Aero Corporation of California was a flying school, workshop and regional distributor of Fokker. NC696 was the fourth Universal to pass through Aero and was used for demonstration and charter flights before delivery to Pacific Air Transport. Standard Airlines, active from late 1927, was a subsidiary of Aero. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

Operated by MacRobertson Miller Airlines. VH-UJT was sold to a Catholic mission in Papua New Guinea in 1939 and crashed soon afterwards. Photo from: State Library of South Australia

Aircraft has a rare US letter registration. To NC54 in 1927. US commercial aviation lagged behind Europe and the small Universal is what Colonial Air Transport commenced flying with in 1926 between New York (Hadley Field, NJ) and Boston, carrying mail only. Photo from: Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie

Crashed Fort St John on December 17, 1939. Photo from: Ken Molson fonds - Ingenium

Crashed while landing The Pas, Manitoba, on January 5, 1928. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

G-CAHH was one of the seven aircraft that took part in the 1927-28 Hudson Strait Expedition - six Universals and a Moth. The five remaining Universals assembled at Erik Cove at the end of the expedition to prepare to fly to Ottawa. G-CAHH crashed on take off after a float strut failed. It was then decided to dismantle the aircraft and ship them out instead. G-CAHH was cancelled from the register after the accident. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

This is the real VH-UTO, destroyed in a hangar fire on 28 February 1939. The "VH-UTO" preserved at Hamilton, Victoria is in fact a Fokker F.XI, restored as a replica of the real VH-UTO. Photo from: Kevin O'Reilly.

With this Fokker Universal, Bert Acosta and Emile Burgin intended to retake the world endurance record which Clarence Chamberlin and Acosta had held briefly earlier in 1927. The attempt either did not happen or failed. The Splitdorf was reported wanted by the sheriff of Bergen County, New Jersey, in early 1928, and Connecticut suspended 'bad boy' B B Acosta's pilot licence, allegedly for trying to fly under a bridge. Photo from: Dan Shumaker collection

Destroyed in a hangar fire at Essendon on February 28, 1939.

VH-UTJ crashed at Alexishafen on August 6, 1939. It was being operated by the Catholic Mission.