FlightsFlightsFokker is undoubtedly the most famous name in Dutch aviation history. But in his lifetime, his importance went far beyond the borders of Holland. The quality of the aircraft he built helped German ace Von Richthofen gain his fame during the First World War and none other than Billy Mitchell encouraged him to set up production facilities in the United States.
In fact, for a brief period in the late Twenties and early Thirties, Fokker was the world's leading manufacturer of civil aircraft. Consequently, in those pioneering years a number of the world's finest achievements in aviation were made in Fokker aircraft.
This site is dedicated to those flights, to the men and women who would boldly go where no one had gone before and to the legendary Fokker planes that opened up the skies.
Fokker: the man and the company
A chronological summary of flights
Around the world in the Old Bus: Kingsford-Smith and the "Southern Cross"
Bibliography
Please come back later for the following pages and more
Over ice caps and ocean waves: Richard Byrd and Fokker
Flight into fame: Amelia Earhart in the "Friendship"
The jewel in the crown: linking Holland and the Dutch East Indies
Picture gallery