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
- Company.successor
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- launch service provider
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Vultee Aircraft
- Headquarters
- San Diego
- Parent organization
- General Dynamics
- Industry
- aerospace industry
- Legal form
- joint-stock company
- Follows
- Vultee Aircraft
Show 6 more facts
- inception
- 1943-00-00
- Commons category
- Convair
- topic's main category
- Category:Convair
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1996-00-00
- product or material produced
- Atlas
- military designation
- Y
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Convair” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.