As a Brazilian aviation historian, my interest on the Fokker S.14 stems from the role it played in the 7 August 1953 agreement signed by the Brazilian Air Ministry and Fokker’s Brazilian subsidiary – Fokker Indústria Aeronáutica S/A.

Yet it was with some surprise to note that there is still a persistent notion that a given number of these jet trainers were assembled and flown in Brazil. There is considerable circumstantial evidence pointing towards the delivery of S.14 components and sub-assemblies to Fokker Indústria Aeronáutica S/A and earmarked for the assembly of the first five S.14s for the Brazilian AF. Yet there is no evidence that a single airframe was ever assembled from these components. Indeed, barring personnel that performed flight evaluation work in the Netherlands in May of 1952, no Brazilian AF flight personnel ever flew the S.14.

Over the years this version has apparently gained credence in view of a single photograph portraying a Fokker S.14 in Brazilian AF markings.Although I have never had personal access to the photograph, a handful of retired Brazilian AF officers and aviation buffs have stated that they have seen such a photograph in a local general interest publication of the period.

It would seem reasonable that a Fokker S.14 did indeed receive Brazilian AF markings for publicity purposes – albeit in the Netherlands.

It should be mentioned that sometime between 1953 and his death in the United States, Gerben Sonderman performed a number of displays with a Fokker S.11 – possibly airframe c/n 6628, which remained in Brazil. It has been repeatedly speculated that Sonderman performed a series of flight displays with a Fokker S.14 in Rio de Janeiro, but there is no proof that this actually occurred.

Best regards
Jackson Flores Jr.