North American Aircraft Company Timelines

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General References

• Open Corporates
• A Chronicle of the Aviation Industry in America, 1903-1947 – HathiTrust
• The Aviation Industry – HathiTrust
• The Aircraft Manufacturing Industry: Present and Future Prospects – HathiTrust
• Climb to Greatness: The American Aircraft Industry, 1920–1960
• Pushing the Envelope: The American Aircraft Industry
• Financial Handbook of the American Aviation Industry, July 1929 – HathiTrust
• American Aviation Directory: Aviation Officials and Companies, United States, Canada, Latin America, Africa, Europe and Australasia[1]
• Aircraft Year Book – Aerospace Industries Corporation

Academic Papers

• International Bibliography of Business History – Google Books (See pages 141-147)
• American Aircraft Industry: On the Brink – ResearchGate
• Complexity and the Aerospace Industry: Understanding Emergence by Relating Structure to Performance using MultiAgent Systems – Jonathan Gabbai (See page 32)
• Taking Off: The Politics and Culture of American Aviation, 1920-1939 – University of Tennessee
• High Frontier: A History of Aeronautics in Pennsylvania – Internet Archive (Requires borrowing via CDL)
• The History of the American Aircraft Industry: An Anthology – Internet Archive (Requires borrowing via CDL)
• Financial Problems of the American Aircraft Industry, 1906-1940 – JSTOR (Requires database access)
• The Naval Aircraft Factory, the American Aviation Industry, and Government Competition, 1919-1928 – JSTOR (Requires database access)

Allison Timeline

History of Allison

• Name Changes
  • Indiapolis Speedway Team Company – 1913
  • Allison Speedway Team Company – 1917
  • Allison Experimental Company – 1918
  • Allison Engineering Company – 1919
  • Allison Engineering Company, General Motors Corporation – 1929
  • Allison Division, General Motors Corporation – 1934
  • Allison Engineering Division, General Motors Corporation – 1937
  • Allison Division, General Motors – 1939
  • Allison Engine Company – 1993
  • Allison Engine Company, Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group – 1994

Bendix Timeline

History of Bendix

• Bendix Aviation Corp. (General File) – Smithsonian Institution
• Annual and Interim Reports, Bendix Aviation Corp. – Smithsonian Institution
• 1932 Bendix Aviation Corporation Annual Report, Aviation History, Early Airplane Parts Company Advertising, American Company Histories – Etsy

Boeing Timeline

History of Boeing

• Munitions Industry – Google Books (See pages 13746-13747)
• Aviation Corporation: The Aviation Corporation Annual Reports: 1929, 1933–1939, 1941–1946 – Internet Archive
• Convair: The Pomona Progress Bulletin from Pomona, California · 35 – Newspapers.com
• North American: Aero – Digest – Internet Archive

Curtiss-Wright Timeline

History of Curtiss-Wright

• Munitions Industry – Google Books (See pages 691-694)
• Aeronautics – Google Books (See pages 75, 86)
• Air Transportation – Google Books (See pages 1, 12; section 5)

Fairchild Timeline

History of Fairchild

• Farmingdale Local History: Aviation – LibGuides
• Aero – Digest – Internet Archive
• Fairchild Industries, Inc. Collection, 1919-1980 – Smithsonian Institution

Lockheed Martin Timeline

History of Lockheed Martin

• Lockheed: The People Behind the Story – Google Books (See page 44)
• Of Men and Stars: Chapter 1 – Homefront Page (Replace last digit before filename extension for other chapters)

Northrop Grumman Timeline

History of Northrop

• Northrop: An Aeronautical History – Google Books
• Northrop Grumman: A Company of Legacies and Logos – Northrop Grumman
• Name Changes
  • The Avion Corporation – 1928-1929 – 4515 Alger Street, Los Angeles, California
  • Northrop Aircraft Corporation (Subsidiary of United Aircraft & Transport Corporation) – 1929-1931 – Factory at United Airport in Burbank
  • The Northrop Aircraft Corporation (Subsidiary of Douglas Aircraft) – 1931-1937 – Factory at Los Angeles Municipal Airport (Mines Field)
  • Northrop Aircraft, Inc. – 1939-1959 – Hawthorne, California

Sperry Timeline

History of Sperry

• Ch 2, ERA to LMCO* – VIP Club
• A History of Sperry Rand Corporation – Stanford University

Textron Aviation Timeline

History of Textron Aviation

• Aerospace Technologies of Bell Aircraft Company: A Pictorial History (1935-1985) – Google Books (See pages 3-6)

Vought Timeline

History of Vought

• The Rise and Fall of the Conglomerate Kings – Google Books (See pages 77-99)
• Chance Vought/LTV History – University of Texas at Dallas

List of Late 1920s–Early 1930s Conglomerates

• Aviation Corporation
• Curtiss-Wright
• Detroit Aircraft Corporation
• Fairchild Aircraft
• General Aviation Manufacturing Corporation
• United Aircraft and Transport Corporation

General References

• Aero – Digest – Internet Archive
• Aviation Week 1929-12-07 – Internet Archive
• Aviation Week 1930-01-25 – Internet Archive

List of Unconnected Companies

The following companies are distinct and separate entities from later companies sharing the same name:

• Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company/Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company – 1912-1921
• Avion Corporation/Northrop Aircraft Corporation – 1928-1929-1931
• Northrop Aircraft Corporation – 1931-1937
• J.S. McDonnell & Associates – 1928
• Ryan Airlines/B.F. Mahoney Aircraft Corporation/Mahoney Aircraft Corporation/Mahoney-Ryan Aircraft Corporation/Ryan Aircraft Corporation – 1925-1929
• Stearman Aircraft Corporation – 1926
• Davis-Douglas Company – 1920
• Gallaudet Engineering Company/Gallaudet Aircraft Company – 1908-1923
• Glenn L. Martin Company – 1912-1916
• Mooney Aircraft Corporation – 1929/1930 or 1931
• Swallow Airplane Company|E.M. Laird Aviation Company/E. M. Laird Airplane Company – 1920 & 1923