FOKKER, ANTHONY HERMAN GERARD 1939) , Dutch aeronaut and aeroplane constructor, was born on April 6, 1890, at Kediri, Java. He obtained his international pilot certificate in 1911 and in the following year he established an aeroplane factory at Johannesthal, near Berlin. In 1913 he founded another factory at Schwerin in Mecklenburg and during the World War supplied the German Army with flying material, notably the Fokker bi- and tri-planes. After the War he returned to Holland and established the Fokker Aircraft Works in that country. In 1924 the Atlantic Aircraft Corporation was founded in the United States, Mr. Fokker being a director ; and a factory was started at Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey. Meanwhile he had set up a plant in Madrid, which was already producing ma chines for the Spanish Government. He devoted much of his time to researches in the field of commercial aircraft development, concentrating especially on monoplanes.