Dornier
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German aircraft manufacturer (1922-2002)
Key facts
- Company type
- Privately held company
- Industry
- aerospace
- Founded
- 1914 ; 112 years ago ( 1914 )
- Fate
- Acquired by Fairchild Aircraft in 1996
- Successor
- Airbus
- Headquarters
- Manzell , Friedrichshafen, Germany
- Key people
- Claude Dornier
- Parent
- Daimler-Benz (from 1985)
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 1914
- Location
- Friedrichshafen, Germany
- Status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- privately held company
- Participant in
- forced labour under German rule during World War II
- Country
- Germany
- Founded by
- Claudius Dornier
- Headquarters
- Lindau
- Parent organization
- Airbus SAS
- Industry
- weapons industry
- Legal form
- Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
- Followed by
- Airbus SE
- Image
- 01 United States Air Force, Dornier Do-328-110, Larnaca, Cyprus.jpg
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- Commons category
- Dornier Flugzeugwerke
- inception
- 1922-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2002-00-00
- IPv6 routing prefix
- 2001:16f0:d054::/48
- Commons gallery
- Dornier
- topic's main category
- Category:Dornier Flugzeugwerke
- product or material produced
- airplane
- has works in the collection
- Bundeswehr Museum of German Defense Technology
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Encyclopedic overview
Dornier Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturer founded in Friedrichshafen in 1914 by Claude Dornier. Over the course of its long lifespan, the company produced many designs for both the civil and military markets.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dornier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.