Beechcraft is an American brand of civil and military aircraft headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, owned by Textron Aviation since 2014. It was originally the brand of the Beech Aircraft Corporation, founded in 1932 by Walter Beech, whose…
Convair was an American aircraft manufacturer created in 1943 by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft, with most of its design and production work concentrated in San Diego County, southern California. General Dynamics…
The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aircraft and defence manufacturer based in southern California, founded on 22 July 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas Sr. in Santa Monica. It merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to create McDonnell…
Fairchild was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturer founded in 1924 by Sherman Fairchild and based in turn at Farmingdale, New York; Hagerstown, Maryland; and San Antonio, Texas. It began as the parent company for its founder's…
The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer founded in 1926 and based for decades in Burbank, California. Its founder, Allan Loughead, came from an earlier company whose name sounded the same, the Loughead Aircraft…