What is Fokker?
{{other uses}} {{Infobox company | name = Fokker | caption = | fate = [[Bankruptcy]] | founder = [[Anthony Fokker]] | foundation = 22 February 1912 | defunct = 1996 | location = [[Amsterdam]], Netherlands | industry = [[Aerospace]] | key_people = [[Anthony Fokker]], [[Reinhold Platz]], [[Walter Rethel]] | products = Commercial airliners<br>Military aircraft | num_employees = | parent = | subsid = }} '''Fokker''' was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[aircraft]] [[Manufacturing|manufacturer]] named after its founder Anthony Fokker. The company operated under several different names starting out in [[1912]] in [[Schwerin]], [[Germany]] and moving to the Netherlands in [[1919]]. During its most successful period in the 1920s and 1930s, it dominated the civil aviation market. Fokker went into [[bankruptcy]] in [[1996]] and its operations were sold to competitors. ==History== Since 1967, Fokker built parts for [[Europe|European]] [[Satellite (artificial)|satellites]]. Next year the company made the first Dutch satellite (''the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite''). ==Other websites== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130726194852/http://www.fokker.com/ Fokker technologies] * [http://www.fokker-aircraft.info/ Fokker aircraft] [[Category:Transport companies of the Netherlands]] [[Category:Aircraft companies]] [[Category:1916 establishments in Europe]] [[Category:1910s establishments in the Netherlands]]