has significant European content.
Despite the large-cabin Gulfstream’s aura of being the all-American business jet, it
has significant European content. On the G350/450 that content includes the pair of Rolls-Royce Tay engines, and on the G500/550 it includes not only the Rolls-Royce Deutschland BR710 turbofans but also the tail, which is made by Stork Fokker in Holland.
Stork, a large Dutch corporation (13,000 employees and revenues of €2 billion [$2.38 billion] last year) whose products span from poultry processing equipment to military vehicles, has breathed new life into the ailing Dutch airplane manufacturer that once built whole airplanes such as the F.27 Friendship and F.28 Fellowship and their F50 and F70/100 successors until hard times got the better of it in the middle of the last decade. Far from being a relic of a past era, Fokker is now at the forefront of airplane manufacturing technology, having invested more than €100 million ($119 million) in a new facility in Papendrecht, the Netherlands, that produces Glare (glass-reinforced aluminum) fuselage sections for the upcoming Airbus A380 mega-widebody.
