Despite two prominent private customers, Harold Vanderbilt and speedboat magnate Garfield Wood, the six-passenger F-11 flying boat was not very successful. This airframe was tested by the US Army as the YC-16. Here it is seen wearing Western Air Express markings. WAE was affiliated with the American Fokker company and may have considered it for its seaplane service to Catalina Island, but WAE never operated the aircraft. Location thought to be the Teterboro factory airfield. Photo from: Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie

Crash of a Fokker F-11A amphibian at McDame Lake in northern British Columbia, see other photo for details and the preserved hull of this aircraft. Photo from: Canada Aviation Museum

This rare flying boat was in storage at the Aviodrome. Only six F.11s were built, and this is the only surviving example. Built in 1930, it was first operated by Air Ferries in San Francisco as NC399N, later by Gorst Air Transport in Seattle. Registered as CF-AUV on 1 Jul 1933 and crashed on take-off from McDame Lake, BC, Canada on 13 July 1935, when it struck trees after a limited take-off run. The wreck was salvaged and later acquired by the Western Canada Aviation Museum in Winnipeg (now the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada). In 1992 it was loaned to the Aviodome, now the Aviodrome.