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Lockheed Corporation
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1926-1995 aerospace manufacturer in the United States
Key facts
- Industry
- Aerospace
- Founded
- April 14, 1926 ; 100 years ago ( 1926-04-14 )
- Founders
- Allan Lockheed , Malcolm Lockheed
- Defunct
- 1995 ( 1995 )
- Fate
- Merged with Martin Marietta
- Successor
- Lockheed Martin
- Headquarters
- Calabasas, California , United States
- Key people
- Irv Culver Courtlandt S. Gross Robert E. Gross Willis Hawkins Hall Hibbard Kelly Johnson Anthony LeVier Joseph F. Ware Jr.
- Number of employees
- 90,000
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 1926
- Location
- Calabasas, United States
- Also known as
- Lockheed, Lockheed Aircraft Company, Vega Aircraft Corporation
- Status
- Inactive
ISNI 0000 0000 9436 3259
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- aerospace manufacturer
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Malcolm Lockheed
- Headquarters
- Burbank
- Industry
- weapons industry
- Legal form
- privately held company
- Image
- Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation, F-BGNC, Air France Manteufel-2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lockheed
- inception
- 1970-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1995-01-01
- replaced by
- Lockheed Martin
- product or material produced
- Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
- short name
- Lockheed
- military designation
- V
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer. Lockheed was founded in 1926 and merged in 1995 with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin. Its founder, Allan Lockheed, had earlier founded the similarly named but otherwise-unrelated Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company, which was operational from 1912 to 1920.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lockheed Corporation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.