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[Moldova96]

Rekkof Aircraft is a Dutch company dedicated to restarting the production of upgraded versions of the Fokker F70 and Fokker F100 regional jets as production of those stopped when Fokker was declared bankrupt in 1996. They first announced their plans in late 2003 and intended to first re-launch the Fokker F70NG (NG standing for Next Generation) and if enough orders were placed later also the Fokker F100NG. Notable changes on the NG models would've been winglets and different engines. A possible third unnamed stretched version of the aircraft had also been mentioned.
Rekkof believes there is a sufficient market for the aircraft and that the design can still compete with similar modern regional airliners from manufacturers as Embraer and Bombardier Aerospace. However, while the announcement of a launch customer and the production re-start have been called "imminent" by Rekkof a number of times between early 2004 and mid-2005, none of Rekkof's plans have materialised to date. KLM, a current user of Fokker aircraft and suggested as a launch customer, has denied that they are in negotiations with Rekkof and has Embraer regional jets on order to replace their Fokker fleet.

Though Rekkof has stated that it prefers to assemble the aircraft in the Netherlands, with Lelystad Airport and Enschede Airport Twente mentioned as possible assembly locations, Bangalore in India had also been mentioned as a possible location with Indian engineering firm Cades Digitech having stated they were planning to invest 300 million US dollars in an assembly plant.[1]
In released promotional render, a new design called the Fokker F100NXT is shown, with the most notable difference being a redesigned wing, lacking the winglets proposed for the Fokker F100NG. In mid-2008 a new website was launched, and the new design was renamed to XF100.

In March 2010 it was announced that the Dutch government granted the company a 20 million Euro loan to help develop the aircraft.

http://www.rekkof.nl/

[Eliot.Christos]

YAY!

[un1]

and cue the requests to add a second production date feature to the game.. (hence why the DHC6s production never ends)

[flightsimer]

production hasnt started... They only have enough money to make one aircraft for demonstration. After that one aircraft if no airline orders it, then the line will stay closed.

[ArthurB]

After doing extensive market research throughout Brazil, the world president of aircraft manufacturer Rekkof Aircraft, Jaap Jacobson, and the company's president in Brazil, Paulo Almada, expressed intention to establish an industrial company in Goiás

Yesterday, at the Emerald Palace, they signed with Gov. Marconi Perillo a letter of intent to install the unit for the assembly of commercial aircraft in Anápolis, Brazil.

The company plans to invest R$1230000(US$784922.04) and generate 1,800 direct jobs to produce aircraft for small, medium and large companies. The Rekkof Aircraft is a Dutch company dedicated to restart production of improved versions of the Fokker-70 and Fokker-100 regional jets after production has finished when the Fokker went bankrupt in 1996.

For the executive, Brazil, by vocation, deserves more aircraft factories, although a large company like Embraer. "We trust and believe in Goiás," emphasized Almada, to emphasize that everything that Rekkof sought to expand in Brazil "found in Goiás"

The signing of the document took place in the Emerald Palace, during a meeting attended by all the secretariat, the mayor of Anápolis, Antonio Gomide, and Senator Cyro Miranda, who last month visited the company headquarters in Holland.

Marconi Perillo The governor said the state will give full support for the installation of the company aircraft in Goiás is expected that the unit deployment process has two phases. The first, for the manufacture of parts and the second being the manufacture of aircraft. From 2013 and 60 aircraft would be assembled in the following year would be 160. 




Source: gynonline.net.br, 16/3/2011 (Day/Month/Year). Translated from portuguese to english by Google Translate and some corrections maid by me