HR MODEL 72047 FOKKER A.III

Description

German A.III

The Fokker A.III was the military name for the Fokker M.5K single-seat monoplane. About ten were built for Germany as unarmed scouts, but one of them was converted into the Fokker E.I with the installation of a synchronized machine gun.

Austro-Hungarian A.III

Twelve Fokker Eindeckers were ordered for Austria-Hungary’s untils in mid-1915, but they were not delivered until February through July of the following year. Eventually thirty-three were built and designated the Fokker A.III. Some Austro-Hungarian A.III’s differed from their German counterpart by the mounting of a synchronized Scharzlose machine gun rather than the IMG08 (Spandau), others retained the IMG08. The A.IIIs served on the Italian front until they could be replaced with more advanced fighters near the end of 1916, at which time they were shifted to the east.