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Koolhoven
Koolhoven Aircraft was an aircraft manufacturer in the Netherlands. The company made airliners as well as fighter aircraft. Koolhoven was founded by Engineer Frits Koolhoven .
Koolhoven constructed aircraft in a factory near Rotterdam. The company ceased operations after the German bombing of Rotterdam in May 1940. After the war attempts to revive the company failed and knowledge and workers were transferred to Fokker in Amsterdam.
The best-known designs by Koolhoven were the Koolhoven FK-51 biplane reconnaissance aircraft and the Koolhoven FK-58 single-seat monoplane fighter. The first saw service in extensive numbers in the Dutch air force from the mid-Thirties until the Second World War; the latter was employed at the outbreak of the war by the French Armée de l'Air.
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