| decade \ location | Seattle | SF Bay | Santa Barbara | Santa Monica / Hawthorne | Burbank / Downey / Torrance | Long Beach / OC | San Diego | back east |
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| 1850 | 1858 J. J.Montgomery b. Yuba City, CA | |||||||
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| 1870 | 1871 O. Wright b. Dayton, OH 1876 C. M. Keys b. Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada 1878 G. Curtiss b. Hammondsport, NY |
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| 1880 | 1887 R. H. Fleet b. Montesano, WA | 1889 A. Loughead b. Fremont, CA | 1880s J. J. Montgomery flew gliders in Otay Mesa, CA | 1881 W. Boeing b. Detroit, MI 1886 G. L. Martin b. Macksburg, IA |
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| 1890 | 1894 W. Waterman b. San Diego, CA | 1895 "Dutch" Kindelberger b. Wheeling, WV 1895 J. Northrop b. Newark, NJ 1895 L. Grummanb. Huntington, NY 1896 F. H. Rohr b. NJ 1898 T. C. Ryanb. Parsons, KS 1898 W. Douglas b. Maine Township, MN 1899 J. S. McDonnell b. Denver, CO |
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| 1900 | 1900 G. Vultee b. Brooklyn, NY 1905 H. Hughes b. Humble, TX 1909 Wright Company began NYC |
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| 1910 | 1910 Boeing Corp. began Seattle WA | 1912 Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Co. began in SF by A. and M. Loughead 1911 J. J. Montgomery d. flying glider San Jose, CA | 1916 Alco renamed Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company, moved Santa Barbara, CA | 1912, G. Martin flew seaplane from Newport Bay to Avalon 1917 Glenn L. Martin Company began Santa Ana, CA ? | 1911 G. Curtiss moved winter HQ to North Island; W. Waterman attached | 1913 D. Woolridge b. Chickasha, OK 1915 Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" first mfg. in Hammondsport, NY 1916 Wright-Martin began NY 1919 Boston-born W. F. Rockwell (1888-1978) made his fortune with the invention and successful launch of a new bearing system for truck axles, Oskosh, WI 1919 Wright Aeronautical began NJ |
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| 1920 | 1921 Douglas Aircraft Co. began Santa Monica, CA | 1926 A. Loughead, Jack Northrop, and Kenneth Jay secured funding to form the Lockheed Aircraft Company Hollywood, CA 1928 Lockheed moved Burbank, CA | 1920 G. Curtiss cashed out, moved to FL 1923 Consolidated Aircraft began by R. H. Fleet Buffalo, NY 1928 J. McDonnell began J.S. McDonnell & Associates Milwaukee, WI 1928 North American began by C. M. Keys Dundalk, MD 1928 Glenn L. Martin Company moved to Maryland 1929 J. McDonnell went to work for G. L. Martin (where?) 1929 Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co. began Baldwin, NY ? |
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1931 J. Northrop & D. Douglas began Northrop Corporation El Segundo, CA 1935 Kindelberger moved North American to El Segundo, CA near southeast corner of Los Angeles Municipal Airport 1935 Douglas DC-3 first mfg. Santa Monica, CA; first test flight Clover Field 1937 Northrop Corporation dissolved 1938 Douglas DB-7 (A-20 Havoc) first mfg. Santa Monica ? 1939 North American B-25 Mitchell first mfg. Inglewood, CA 1939 J. Northrop began Northrop Corporation Hawthorne, CA | 1932 Hughes Aircraft Co. began in Lockheed hangar, Burbank, CA 1937 G. Vultee running factory in Downey, CA | 1934 Ryan Aeronautical began San Diego, CA 1935 Consolidated PBY Catalina first mfg. San Diego, CA 1935 R. H. Fleet moved Consolidated to "Building 1" San Diego, CA ~1935 F. H. Rohr worked at Ryan San Diego, CA | 1930 G. Curtiss d. Buffalo, NY 1937 Grumman F4F Wildcat first mfg. Long Island, NY ? 1939 McDonnell Aircraft Corporation began St. Louis, MO |
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| 1940 | 1940 North American P-51 Mustang first mfg. Iglewood, CA 1940 Douglas SBD Dauntless first mfg. EL Segundo, CA 1947 North American F-86 Sabre / FJ Fury first mfg. Inglewood, CA | 1943 Lockheed "Skunk Works" started in Burbank, CA 1947 Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star first mfg. Burbank, CA ? | 1940 Rohr Aircraft started, w/ R. H. Fleet 1940 Consolidated B-24 Liberator first mfg. San Diego, CA 1943 R. H. Fleet cashed out, Consolidated merged w/ Vultee Aircraft forming Convair San Diego, CA 1943? Rohr producing engine packages for Convair B-24s & Boeing B-17s Chula Vista, CA | 1948 O. Wright d. Dayton, OH | ||||
| 1950 | 1956 W. Boeing d. Seattle, WA | 1953 S. Ramo and D. Woolridge began Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation Los Angeles, CA (near LAX; later Redondo Beach campus) 1958 Thompson Products merged with Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation to become TRW | 1950 S. Ramo & D. Wooldridge working at Hughes Aircraft, led dev of Falcon radar-guided missile 1953 H. Hughes gave his stock in Hughes Aircraft Company to Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 1955 TWA sponsored Rocket to the Moon ride at Disneyland, Anaheim, CA | 1953 General Dynamics bought Convair San Diego, CA | |||
| 1960 | 1961 Glenn L.Martin Company merged with the American-Marietta Corporation (a large sand and gravel mining company) becoming the Martin Marietta Corporation Calabasas, CA 1969 Martin Marietta commissioned to build the Mark IV monorail used on the Walt Disney World Monorail System, Lake Buena Vista, FL between 1971-1989 | 1966 Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird first mfg. Burbank, CA | 1961 Douglas Aircraft sponsored Rocket to the Moon ride at Disneyland, Anaheim, CA 1967 McDonnell Douglas sponsored Flight to the Moon ride (part of the New Tomorrowland) at Disneyland, Anaheim, CA | 1965 F. H. Rohr d. San Diego, CA ? 1969 Ryan was bought, now Teldyne Ryan San Diego, CA 1960s W. Waterman designed his last flying car, Chevybird monoplane powered by Corvair engine (where?) | 1967 Rockwell Standard bought Los Angeles-based North American Aviation to form North American Rockwell, Pittsburgh, PA 1969 A. Lockheed d. Tucson, AZ |
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| 1970 | 1975 McDonnell Douglas sponsored Mission to Mars ride at Disneyland, Anaheim, CA | 1975 R. H. Fleet d. San Diego, CA 1976 W. Waterman d. San Diego, CA, buried Mt. Hope Cem. | 1976 H. Hughes d. Houston, TX | |||||
| 1980 | 1989, Lockheed relocated the "Skunk Works" to Site 10 at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California | 1981 J. Northrop d. Glendale, CA 1985 The Howard Hughes Medical Institute sold Hughes Aircraft to General Motors | ||||||
| 1990 | 1993 Pico Rivera Northop plant closed (B-2 Bomber) 1994 Northrop and Grumman merged to form Northrop Grumman 1996 Rockwell International's defense and space divisions (including the North American Aviation divisions Autonetics and Rocketdyne) were sold to Boeing | 1993 Martin Marietta bought General Dynamics' Space Systems Division, maker of the Atlas family of launch vehicles 1994 Convair sold to McDonnell Douglas 1996 McDonnell Douglas shut down Convair | 1995 Martin Marietta merged with Lockheed Corporation to form Lockheed Martin Bethesda, MD 1996 TRW Information Systems and Services Division (Credit Data) spun off forming Experian Dublin, Ireland 1997 McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing Chicago, IL 1995 Martin Marietta merged with Lockheed Corporation to form Lockheed Martin 1999 Northrop-Grumman bought Teledyne Ryan Falls Church, VA |
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| 2000 | 2000 GM sold Hughes Space & Communications to Boeing. A combination of Boeing, GM, and Raytheon acquired the Hughes Research Laboratories 2002 TRW bought by Northrop Grumman Falls Church, VA |
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| 2010 | 2012 Northrop Grumman bought Scaled Composites Mojave, CA |
Last update Sun Aug 13 20:13:36 PDT 2017