Fokker of the Netherlands provided a license to Hagerstown, Maryland based Fairchild Aircraft to manufacture their famous Fokker 27 in the United States for sales to North American based airlines and corporate operators in the late 1950s and 1960s. Fairchild slightly modified the aircraft name designation to “F-27” with a dash between the F and the 2, whereas the original Fokker built machine was an F27 with no dash between the F and the 2.

In this “long lost” sales movie produced by Fairchild to promote the Fairchild F-27 from 1960, they tout many features of the proven prop jet transport that makes it suitable as a VIP corporate transport, including the excellence of its cockpit arrangement, the reliability of its two Rolls Royce Dart engines, and of course the “built for business comfort” of its cabin. Thus, the Fairchild F-27 was a true leader of its class.