In 1994, Raytheon merged Beechcraft with the Hawker product line it had acquired in 1993 from British Aerospace, forming Raytheon Aircraft Company.

* Contractor: TRW ( acquired by Northrop Grumman in 2002 ), Israel Aircraft Industries

2002: Viking assets acquired by Alexandria Aircraft LLC ( consortium of Weber's Aero Repair and four Bellanca employees ).

1935 marked a major change for Parnall when the firm acquired the assets of both Hendy Aircraft Ltd. and the armaments firm of Nash and Thompson.

USD in 1999 ( now called: BAE Systems ), and Raytheon acquired Hughes Aircraft for 9. 5 bil.

In November 2001, Polar was acquired by Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings ( AAWW ), whose Atlas Air subsidiary is a leading provider of ACMI ( Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance ) freighter leasing.

USD in 1999 ( now called: BAE Systems ), and Raytheon acquired Hughes Aircraft for 9. 5 bil.

LMU acquired the building in January 2000 from Raytheon, which bought Hughes Aircraft.

LD Equity 2 has, together with a new management team, acquired Sterling's aircraft maintenance activities and has established Essential Aircraft Maintenance Services A / S.

In 1980, Raytheon acquired Beech Aircraft Corporation, a leading manufacturer of general aviation aircraft founded in 1932 by Walter H. Beech.

Also in 1997, Raytheon acquired the aerospace and defense business of Hughes Aircraft Company from Hughes Electronics Corporation — a subsidiary of General Motors, which included a number of product lines previously purchased by Hughes Electronics including the former General Dynamics missile business, the defense portion of Delco Electronics ( Delco Systems Operations ), and Magnavox Electronic Systems.

In 1959, Folland Aircraft was acquired, followed by de Havilland Aircraft Company and Blackburn Aircraft in 1960.

English Electric Aircraft would become a founding member of the British Aircraft Corporation in 1960 with the other industrial operations acquired by GEC in 1968.

In 1994, GKN acquired the helicopter manufacturing business of Westland Aircraft.

The merger of Fairey's aviation interests with Westland Aircraft took place in early 1960 shortly after Westland had acquired the Saunders-Roe group and the helicopter division of the Bristol Aeroplane Company.

Westland acquired all Fairey ’ s aircraft manufacturing business ( including the Gannet AEW. 3 ) and Fairey's 10 % investment in the Aircraft Manufacturing Company ( Airco ).

The aircraft interests of Armstrong Whitworth were not acquired in the merger and later passed to the Hawker Aircraft group.

In Billy Wilder's 1957 film adaptation of Charles Lindbergh ’ s The Spirit of St. Louis, Deacon portrayed the chairman of the Columbia Aircraft Corp, Charles A. Levine, who, in February 1927, refused to sell Lindbergh his company's recently acquired Bellanca monoplane for Lindbergh ’ s trans-atlantic flight unless his company could choose the pilot.

Derelict RSAF T-28 Trojan | T-28A Trojan, one of four acquired in the 1950s, at King Abdulaziz UniversityRSAF Roundel on the side of a Lightning Aircraft

* SIAI-Marchetti S. 211 — Since 1984, 32 × S. 211s were acquired for RSAF's Basic Jet Training ( BJT ) program ( this figure includes 24 airframes which were assembled locally by Singapore Aircraft Industries plus two former Haitian aircraft acquired as attrition replacements in 1994 ).

His mind flicked through the mental pictures he had from the hours of Aircraft Identification.

Randy Groom, now President of Groom Aviation LLC, was President from 2003 to 2007, when Raytheon sold Raytheon Aircraft to Hawker Beechcraft.

Cessna Aircraft Company closed its doors from 1932 until 1934 due to the state of the economy.

Aircraft engines increased in power several-fold over the period, going from a typical in the 1918 Fokker D. VII to in the 1938 Curtiss P-36.

In comparison, scheduled flights operate from around 560 airports in the U. S. According to the U. S. Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, general aviation provides more than one percent of the United States ' GDP, accounting for 1. 3 million jobs in professional services and manufacturing.

Aircraft approaching from the north must make visual contact with the airport at a higher altitude than a flight approaching from the south, because of rapidly rising terrain south of the airport.

* Dreikausen, Margret, " Aerial Perception: The Earth as Seen from Aircraft and Spacecraft and Its Influence on Contemporary Art " ( Associated University Presses: Cranbury, NJ ; London, England ; Mississauga, Ontario: 1985 ).

NASA ordered 20 production spacecraft, numbered 1 through 20, from McDonnell Aircraft Company, St. Louis, Missouri.

A number of Mercury boilerplate spacecraft ( including mockup / prototype / replica spacecraft, made from non-flight materials or lacking production spacecraft systems and / or hardware ) were also made by NASA and McDonnell Aircraft.

The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft from 1917 to the Present.

On April 17, 2012, Discovery was transported by Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to Dulles from Kennedy Space Center, where it made several passes over the Washington D. C. metro area.

Junkers ( Aircraft ) | Junkers patent drawing from March 1944.

* August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ( SCA ).

** Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – Aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.

* May 21 – Army Aviation Section separated from Signal Corps and divided into the Division of Military Aeronautics and the Bureau of Aircraft Production.

* February 13 – Aircraft from HMS Formidable ( 67 ) attack Massawa.

* February 2 – The word Aerospace is coined, from the words Aircraft ( aero ) and Spacecraft ( space ), taking into consideration that the Earth's atmosphere and outerspace is to be one, or a single realm.

American Airlines retired all its Airbus A300-600 Aircraft from service eight years after the accident ( and 21 years in service ) in August, 2009, with its last flight, flight 1908 from Miami to New York-JFK operating on August 24, 2009.

Grissom was one of the smaller astronauts, and he worked very closely with the engineers and technicians from McDonnell Aircraft who built the Gemini spacecraft.

Aircraft had to approach these from certain directions and this led to the development of aids for directing the approach and landing slope.

Aircraft noise not only occurs from take-off and landings, but also ground operations including maintenance and testing of aircraft.

Aircraft evacuation slides allow people to rapidly and safely reach the ground from the height of a passenger airliner.