Fokker locations in the Netherlands 1919-1996

At the beginning of June 1926, the branch in Veere came to an end and the gate of the company closed.

Production capacity had been expanded at the Papaverweg in Amsterdam and production from Veere could continue there

In the meantime, in 1924, a flight hangar had been built for Fokker at Schiphol (East).
The factory on Papaverweg lacked a runway, all aircraft there built went by barge over

the water, through Amsterdam, to the ring canal in the Haarlemmermeer where Schiphol was located.

Fokker in World War II

In the war years 1940-1945, the Fokker factory was bombed three times by the Allies.
Because of the damage caused, Fokker would then no longer be able to produce for

the German occupier, was the argument.

The Germans had occupied the Fokker factory immediately after the invasion of the

Netherlands, after which the Fokker aircraft present were confiscated and added to

the German Luftwaffe fleet.

After that, the Fokker employees were forced to produce and repair aircraft for the

German Luftwaffe under German supervision.

In 1943, after the bombing of 25 July, it was decided to disperse a number of

departments of the factory on the Papaverweg in Amsterdam and (distant)

surroundings, in order to be able to continue production for the German occupier.

• Amsterdam, RIVA garage, Overtoom no. 201-205, parts production and piece assembly Bücker-181 and Arado-196.
• Amsterdam, RAI building, Ferdinand Bolstraat no. 155, Junkers-52 wings repair.

• Amsterdam, paper factory Nestelroy-Trompenburg, Amsteldijk no. 166, pre-assembled Arado-196.
• Amsterdam, wallpaper factory Rath & Doodeheefver, Duivendrechtsekade no. 54 piece assembly and Hull construction Arado-196, final assembly Bücker-181.
• Weesp, bicycle factory Magnet, Groensingel, woodworking, hull construction Bücker-181.

• Amsterdam, Dutch concrete company, Distelweg, assembly hall Fokker.
• Amsterdam, Coenhaven, Junkers-52 parts production.
• Amsterdam, Oostelijke Handelskade no. 12, Kon. holl. Lloyd, construction firm.

For the possible production of the Junkers-388 by Fokker, production space in Brabant and Limburg

was looked at, including at companies in Mook and Heerlen, but the production at Fokker was cancelled.


After the second World War
At the insistence of the government, on 01-01-1947 Fokker, together with Aviolanda and the

aircraft construction department of Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, formed

the NV United Aircraft Factory Fokker i.o. (in formation).

Aviolanda was established in Papendrecht/Dordrecht, the Schelde in Vlissingen.

In April 1949, Aviolanda and the Schelde became independent again.

On 16-02-1954 AVIO Diepen became a subsidiary of Fokker.
The aircraft trading company and the repair company of AVIO Diepen, of which

Frits Diepen was managing director, were located at Ypenburg Airport near The Hague.
On 01-03-1954 Frits Diepen became commercial director at Fokker.

On 01-05-1954 the aircraft construction department of Kon. Me. the Scheldt is now permanently in Fokker.
On 31-12-1967 the Aviolanda branches were also merged into the Fokker concern.

Not only Papendrecht/Dordrecht, but also the Woensdrecht branch, which has since become part of Aviolanda.

In 1969 the company N.V. Lichtwerk in Hoogeveen was incorporated into the Fokker concern, N.V. Lichtwerk was founded on 18-09-1961.

Both at Papaverweg and later at Schiphol, Fokker regularly had to deal with a lack of space and space was

then rented elsewhere for a certain period of time or production activities were relocated elsewhere.

In the early 1920s and late 1930s, production activities took place in Werkspoor workshops in Haarzuilen in Utrecht.

In 1923, among other things, wing construction and at the end of the 1930s G-1 components were built in Haarzuilen.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Fokker had rented storage and warehouse space for the Schiphol location from Fa. Verhoef in Aalsmeer.


From the 1970s onwards, the Dutch Fokker locations were referred to as the (main) activities there:
    • FBS, Fokker company Schiphol, aircraft terminal lines, production, delivery and space activities.
    • FBD, Fokker company Drechtsteden, including component construction F-27, F-28, Fokker 50, Fokker 100.
    • FBY, Fokker company Ypenburg, plastics company, such as maintenance/conversion F-27, maintenance F-104 Starfighter of the Royal Netherlands Air Force.
    • FBW, Fokker company Woensdrecht, maintenance/conversion F-28, Fokker 100,
    • ELMO, Elektra Montage (cabling), maintenance MLD Atlantic and Neptune.
    • FBH, Fokker company Hoogeveen, including component construction, shelter construction.

The main building at Schiphol, building 9, and later building 41, became too small in the 1970s.
This was where the board of directors and other board members sat, among others.
Fokker moved into the building of the former Elsevier publishing house in Amsterdam west,

on Krelis Louwenstraat. This became the new headquarters.
After having spent several years in the Elsevier building, it moved
Fokker head office with management, marketing and sales department, plus other (office)

departments to a larger building in the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer, the America building

of the Atlas office complex on Hoogoorddreef.