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The Space Shuttle Enterprise rolls out of the Palmdale manufacturing facilities with Star Trek cast and crew members in September 1976. Northrop B-2A roll-out ceremony on November 22, 1988, at USAF Plant 42. Palmdale Army Airfield was declared a surplus facility in 1946 and was purchased by Los Angeles County for use as a municipal airport.
By 1949, the Sepulveda Blvd. property was increasingly constrained by the demand for development of commercial space near the fast-growing Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). At that time, 2,000 people worked at the facility "and Garrett was ranked one of the top three aircraft accessory manufacturers in the world". [16]
Marrett, George J. Testing Death: Hughes Aircraft Test Pilots and Cold War Weaponry, Praeger Publishing, 2006. Parker, Dana T. Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II, Cypress, CA. ISBN 978-0-9897906-0-4. D. Kenneth Richardson (2011). Hughes After Howard: The Story of Hughes Aircraft Company. Sea Hill Press.
ICON Aircraft's headquarters are located in Vacaville, California, where all manufacturing, engineering, design, training, sales, and service functions are consolidated. [37] [38] It also has an office in Los Angeles, California, where the company was founded.
John Clifford "Cliff" Garrett founded Aircraft Tool and Supply Company in a one-room office in Los Angeles in 1936 [18] to create specialized parts for aviation. [9] From 1936 to 1938 the company grew from $3,503 to $21,540 in profit and raised an additional $31,500 in capital. [9]
Heart Aerospace is developing the ES-30, a 30-seat hybrid-electric powered regional airliner, designed for enhanced sustainability and efficiency on short-haul routes.. The ES-30 is projected to have an electric-only range of 200 kilometres (120 mi) and a hybrid-electric range of 400 km (250 mi), significantly reducing CO2 emissions compared to conventional aircraft on similar routes.
Parker, Dana T. Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II. Cypress, California: Dana T. Parker Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9897906-0-4. Sobel, Robert. "Donald Douglas: The Fortunes of War". The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition. New York: Weybright & Talley, 1974.
Both men were of Scottish ancestry, were graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and had worked for the aircraft manufacturer Glenn L. Martin Company. [3] Douglas F3D Skyknight, c. 1952. Douglas had been chief engineer at Martin before leaving to establish Davis-Douglas Company in early 1920 in Los Angeles.