During serial production, Fokker intends to produce 140 sets of composite A350 XWB flaps annually. Outboard flaps increase the surface area of the wing during take-off and landing.
Development activities, scheduled to last 18 months, have already started in Papendrecht, the Netherlands, in close collaboration with Airbus in Bremen, Germany, with first hardware deliveries in 2011.
Fokker and Airbus have an existing business relationship. Fokker is a supplier to the Airbus A380 of Glare fuselage panels and the thermoplastic leading edge.
Fokker, a specialist in complex lightweight aerostructures, recently won the contract for the JSF flaperons and already produces the inboard flaps for the Boeing 747-8 and the flaperons for the F16.
Stork Fokker (to be renamed Fokker Aerostructures on 1 January 2010) is a company of the Fokker Aerospace Group.