Fokker

Throughout its history, the company has existed under various names.

It was originally founded in 1912 as the AHG Fokker Aeroplanbau in Johannisthal (district of Berlin , Germany ) ^[1] .

In 1913 , having moved to Schwerin (Germany), it was renamed Fokker Aeroplanbau GmbH .

At the end of the First World War , according to the Versailles agreements of post-war Germany, it was forbidden to have its own air fleet, design and build aircraft, and place aircraft manufacturing enterprises on German territory. Therefore, in 1919 , the company was forced to move its activities to the Netherlands .

Airplanes manufactured by Fokker were assigned indices according to the classification adopted by German aviation at the beginning of the 20th century:

A - single-engine unarmed monoplanes

B - single-engine twin unarmed biplanes

C - single-engine twin armed biplanes

D - single-engine single armed biplanes

E - single-engine single armed monoplanes

Dr - single-engine single armed trips

Combat use

• Training

• Airplanes

• Aircraft communications and intelligence

• Fighters

• Fighter bombers

• Artillery spotters

• Attack aircraft

Fokker-designed aircraft in service with the Austro-Hungarian Empire Air Force

Single engine single biplanes:

• Fokker D.VII (1918)

• Fokker M.5

Fokker Airplanes Designed by the German Air Force

Single-engine unarmed monoplanes:

• Fokker ai

• Fokker A.II

• Fokker A.III

Single-engine single armed monoplanes:

• Fokker EI (1915)

• Fokker E.II

• Fokker E.III

• Fokker E.IV

Single-engine single triplanes:

• Fokker Dr.I (1917)

Fokker aircraft designed by other countries

Single engine single biplanes:

• Fokker di

• Fokker D.II

• Fokker D.III

• Fokker D.IV

• Fokker dv

• Fokker D.VI

• Fokker D.VII (1918)

• Fokker D.VIII - (Also known as the Fokker EV monoplane) (1918)

Single-engine single triplanes:

• Fokker Dr.I (1917)

Single-engine single armed monoplanes:

• Fokker EI (1915)

• Fokker E.II (1915)

• Fokker E.III (1916)

• Fokker E.IV (1916)

• Fokker EV - (Also known as the Fokker D.VIII monoplane)

During the heyday of the 1920s and 1930s, the company dominated the civilian airliner market and also produced fighter jets and other types of aircraft, including Fokker D.XXI and Fokker C.XIV , used by the Netherlands Air Force during World War II .

1923 year. Reinhold Platz Fighter Fokker D.XI

In 1922-1923, the German aircraft designer Reinhold Platz designed and built a single-engine lightweight maneuverable single fighter, one and a half-plane, which was called the Fokker D.XI , at the Company's plant. The aircraft was equipped with a piston engine Hispano-Suiza (Hispano-Suiza) with a capacity of 224 kW = 300 hp

The first successful flight of the prototype took place on March 23, 1923. Tests have shown that the design of the new aircraft is very successful, and flight performance meets the requirements of military customers.

Initially, the fighter was intended for delivery to the Netherlands Air Force. By order of the government, mass production of a combat vehicle at the Fokker factory began.

117 cars were built when the Dutch government refused to purchase aircraft due to financial problems. The entire batch of fighters released was exported to other countries.

Fokker fighters in the Red Army Air Force. 1918-1929

On November 7–9, the II Congress of Soviets was held in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) , at which the Council of People's Commissars (SNK) was formed - the government of the Russian Soviet Republic. On January 28, 1918, the Council of People's Commissars issued a Decree on the formation of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army . In the conditions of the Civil War in the territory of the former Russian Empire, the warring parties and various military groups used Fokker aircraft. Airplanes were used for communications, reconnaissance and photography, shelling and bombing of enemy forces, performed transport and sanitary functions. Part of the aircraft was used as training for the training of pilots.

According to the Soviet military doctrine of that time, along with the tank and engine parts of the army, the Air Force of the Red Army was defined as "special technical units."

At the disposal of the flying units of the Red Army were the aircraft:

Fokker D.VII (Fokker D-7, or FD-7) - single-engine single-seat light maneuverable fighter. It was in service with the 1st Red Banner Fighter Squadron, Gatchina airfield, not far from Petrograd (St. Petersburg).

In 1922-1923, the USSR purchased from Fokker a small number of Fokker D.VII fighters (FD-7), which entered service with the combatant combat units of the Air Force of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army ^[2] .

Since 1928, the Fokker D.XI fighter (FD-11) fighter has been manufactured at the Soviet aircraft factory Aviakrabotnik for the needs of the Red Army Air Force under the Fokker license since 1928, 15 were built ^[3] .

The Soviet-built single-engine single-seat lightweight maneuverable Fokker D.XI fighter and a half-plane had an M-6 engine (Russian version of the Hispano-Suiza 8Fb engine) with a power of 300 hp. with a wooden two-bladed fixed-pitch propeller, a glider of a mixed wood-linen structure, an open cockpit and a landing gear fixed in flight.

With a take-off weight of 1,250 kg, the aircraft had a maximum speed of 225 km / h and a flight range of 575 km. In a variant of a combat fighter aircraft, it was armed with 2 × 7.62 mm machine guns for hitting targets in the front hemisphere.

The licensed Fokker D.XI aircraft was operated in the USSR until 1929.

Part of the aircraft Fokker D.VII and Fokker D.XI was used as a training and training in aviation schools of the USSR.

With the outbreak of World War II , the company's production facilities in the Netherlands were captured by German troops and used to produce Dornier Do 24 patrol boats (159 aircraft in 1941-1944), Bücker Bü 181 Bestmann monoplanes (708 aircraft in 1942-1944) years) ^[4] , the seaplane Arado Ar 196 (59 in 1943-1944) and parts for transport aircraft Junkers Ju 52 .

In the post-war period, the company continued to manufacture aircraft, starting with the release in 1947 of a series of S.XI Instructor training aircraft for the Netherlands Air Force. In 1951, a plant was commissioned near the airport Schiphol, Amsterdam . A number of aircraft were licensed, including Gloster Meteor and Lockheed F-104 Starfighter military aircraft.

Since 1958, the Company has also produced a number of successful civilian airliners - Fokker F27 , Fokker F28 , the Fokker family 50/70/100 .

The company went bankrupt in 1996 , and its units were sold to competitors.

At the beginning of 2017, the number of actively used Fokker aircraft was approximately 400 aircraft, having decreased by 100 aircraft since 2016. Nevertheless, in the secondary market, brand aircraft continue to be in demand. For 2016, through the mediation of Fokker Technologies 42 Dutch aircraft changed owners ^[5] .

Rudolph Fizir (1891-1960) is a Yugoslav aircraft designer whose engineering activity in 1914-1916 began under the leadership of Anthony Fokker.

Rudolf Fizir was born in the town of Ludbreg, in Croatia.

At the end of the primary, and then the craft school in Zagreb, in 1906-1907 he continued his studies in high school of the secondary technical school in Wiener Neustadt. Then he studied at the Technical University of Toulouse in France. In 1911 (1912?) He entered the Aerotechnical Engineering Academy in Wismar, Germany. The first student project of 1913 was a sports biplane that was not implemented.

With the outbreak of World War I, Fizir was sent to Schwerin as a graduate student at the Academy, where he was entrusted with designing fighters for the German air corps at the new Fokker-Flugzeugbau plant. In 1915, after graduation, Rudolf Fizir passed the exams with a diploma of an aerotechnical engineer.

In April 1916, Anthony Fokker sent Fizir to Budapest to search for space and organize the production of the Fokker subsidiary in Hungary.

In September 1916, Fizir returned to Germany, left Fokker and went on to work as a designer, first at Hansa und Brandenburg Flugzeugwerken in Brandenburg, and then at Hansa-Lloyd-Werk, where he worked until the end of World War I.

In 1921 he entered the service in the Royal Yugoslav Air Force, where he designed and built airplanes that were in service with the Air Force of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and then the Air Force of Yugoslavia.

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• Fokker landing gear
• Fokker elmo
• Fokker aircraft services
• Fokker services

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