Vultee Aircraft

Vultee Aircraft, Inc.
Predecessor
  • Airplane Development Corporation
    (1932–1934)
  • AVCO Aviation Manufacturing Corporation
    (1934–1939)
Founded1939; 85 years ago (1939)
Founder
Defunct1943; 81 years ago (1943)
FateMerged with Consolidated Aircraft to form Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
SuccessorConvair
Headquarters
Downey, California
,
U.S.

Vultee Aircraft, Inc.,[1] was an aircraft manufacturer founded in 1939 in Los Angeles County, California, when the Vultee Aircraft Division of the aviation holding company AVCO was reorganized as an independent company.[2][3] It had limited success before merging with the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation on March 17–18, 1943, to form the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation − or Convair.[1][4]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference GC&IN V159 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Parker, Dana T. Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II, pp. 107–120, Cypress, CA, 2013.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference deltas17 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation". centennialofflight.net. Retrieved 2023-06-18.