Convair
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thumb|right|Convair F-106 Delta Dart thumb|right|Convair 880 thumb|right|RIM-2 Terrier antiaircraft missile on board USS Providence thumb|right|Atlas rocket launching Friendship 7, the first U.S. crewed orbital space flight thumb|right|Atlas-Centaur with [[Pioneer 10 on launch pad]]
Key facts
- Company.name
- Consolidated VulteeConvair
- Company.logo
- CONVAIR_logo.png
- Company.industry
- Aircraft, Aerospace
- Company.fate
- Operations permanently shut down
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- Company.founder
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- Company.hq_location_city
- San Diego, California
- Company.hq_location_country
- U.S.
- Company.area_served
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- Company.owner
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- Company.subsid
- Consairway
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Wikidata facts
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- inception
- 1943-00-00
- Commons category
- Convair
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1996-00-00
- military designation
- Y
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Article
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Origins
- Jet Age, Cold War, and Space Age
- Dissolution
- Timeline
- Products
- Aircraft
- Missiles and rockets
- References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|right|Convair F-106 Delta Dart thumb|right|Convair 880 thumb|right|RIM-2 Terrier antiaircraft missile on board USS Providence thumb|right|Atlas rocket launching Friendship 7, the first U.S. crewed orbital space flight thumb|right|Atlas-Centaur with [[Pioneer 10 on launch pad]]
Convair, originally Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company created by the 1943 merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft, which later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. It was purchased by General Dynamics in 1953 and operated as their Convair Division for most of its corporate history.