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Born-again Fokker 100 waits on loan approval

Fokker Services, part of Fokker Aerospace is preparing to modify a prototype Fokker F100 airliner as a demonstrator vehicle for the proposed successor to t

By Ian Goold • Senior correspondent

July 19, 2010

Fokker Services, part of Fokker Aerospace is preparing to modify a prototype Fokker F100 airliner as a demonstrator vehicle for the proposed successor to the type being planned under the name Aircraft XF100NG. If launched, this planned revival of the former Dutch aerospace manufacturer’s last production model–manufacturing of which ceased in 1996– would be powered by new, modern engines and equipped with new avionics, winglets and have more fuel capacity.

NG Aircraft, a renaming of the previous Rekkof Restart company set up some years ago to support an earlier attempt to relaunch the F100 family, hopes that the European Commission (EC) will soon approve a $27 million loan offered by the Dutch government in March. The company, which is part of the Panta Holdings group led by aerospace and aviation entrepreneur Jaap Rosen Jacobson, has indicated that EC approval could come as early as September.

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