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Company type | Privately held company |
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Industry | manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery |
Founded | 1914 |
Defunct | 2002 |
Fate | Acquired by Fairchild Aircraft in 1996 |
Successor | Airbus |
Headquarters | Manzell, Friedrichshafen, Germany |
Key people | Claude Dornier |
Parent | Daimler-Benz (from 1985) |
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.