Editing Fokker (section)

===Fokker 50, Fokker 100, and Fokker 70===
[[File:Tekening_van_het_ontwerp_van_de_McDonnell_Douglas_-_Fokker_MDF100_(2161_027084).jpg|thumb|right|McDonnell-Douglas Fokker MDF100 study]]
[[File:Greenland Express Fokker F100 at Lviv International Airport (original).jpg|thumb|[[Fokker 100]], Was Fokker's last successful aircraft]]
[[File:Austrian Airlines, OE-LFJ, Fokker F70 (22670693849).jpg|thumb|The [[Fokker 70]] was a shorted [[Fokker 100]] design for the short range market.]]
After a [[Fokker_F.29|brief and unsuccessful collaboration effort]] with [[McDonnell Douglas]] in 1981, Fokker began an ambitious project to develop two new aircraft concurrently. The [[Fokker 50]] was to be a completely modernised version of the [[Fokker F27 Friendship|F-27]], and the [[Fokker 100]] a new airliner based on the [[Fokker F28 Fellowship|F-28]]. Development costs were allowed to spiral out of control, almost forcing Fokker out of business in 1987. The Dutch government bailed the company out with 212 million guilders, but demanded Fokker look for a "strategic partner", [[British Aerospace]] and [[DaimlerChrysler Aerospace|DASA]] being named most likely candidates.

Initial sales of the [[Fokker 100]] were good, leading Fokker to begin development of the [[Fokker 70]], a smaller version of the [[Fokker 100|F100]], in 1991, but sales of the [[Fokker 70|F70]] were below expectations and the F100 had strong competition from [[Boeing]] and [[Airbus]] by then. The {{ill|Dutch government aircraft|nl|Nederlands regeringstoestel}} between 1996 and 2017 was a Fokker 70.<ref>[https://nos.nl/artikel/2517177-oud-regeringstoestel-kbx-een-fokker-70-weer-te-koop Oud-regeringstoestel KBX, een Fokker 70, weer te koop]</ref>

In 1992, after a long and arduous negotiation process, Fokker signed an agreement with [[DASA]]. This did not solve Fokker's problems, though, mostly because DASA's parent company [[Daimler-Benz]] also had to deal with its own organisational problems.