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Locations by Manufacturer |
| Company |
Location |
Aircraft Types |
Empl. |
USAAF Code |
Navy Code |
Remarks |
| Aeronca |
Middletown, OH |
(995) PT-19, PT-23; (1,439)
L-3 |
|
AE |
R |
Aeronca moved to its present location at Hook
Field in Middletown, OH from Lunken Airport in Cincinnati in 1940 after
the Ohio River flooded the airport in 1937 (hence the moniker "Sunken
Lunken"), and at the same time changed to name to Aeronca from
Aeronautical Corporation of America in 1941. Magellan Aeronca exists
today on a 18 acres of land with 200,000 square feet of manufacturing,
aircraft repair and office facilities, where it makes subcomponents for
the aerospace industry and still services its previous products. |
| Beech Aircraft Corp. |
Wichita, KS |
(1,771) C-45; (5,175) AT-7,
(1,771) AT-10, AT-11 |
|
BH |
B |
|
| Bell Aircraft Corp. |
Buffalo, NY |
(9,588) P-39, (Production
split between this location and Wheatfield Plant); (?) C-46 |
|
BE |
L |
Bell had two plants in the Buffalo, NY area
during WWI. The original plant was located at 2050 Elmwood in
Buffalo and was originally constructed in 1917 to produce flying boats
for the US Navy in WWI. Consolidated Aircraft occupied it between 1924 and
1935 when it left for San Diego. Bell then took over the facility
and produced some of the P-39s in this building along with some Curtiss
C-46s under subcontract for Curtiss. Most of the building still
stands in a combination residential and industrial area. There is
no remaining trace of the airport. Bell employed a total of 28,000
during in the Buffalo/Wheatfield area in WWII. |
| Bell Aircraft Corp. |
Wheatfield, NY |
(?) P-39, (3,273)
P-63 |
|
BE |
L |
This 600,000 square foot aircraft
manufacturing plant was built on the site of the current Niagara Falls, NY
Airport in 1941 produced the bulk of the P-39s and all of the P-63s,
along with the post war jet aircraft, rockets, and helicopters. In
1951 the helicopter division moved to Ft. Worth, TX. |
| Bell Aircraft Corp. |
Marietta, GA |
(652) B-29 |
28,000 |
BA |
L |
This 2,000,000 square foot
government built facility was closed after the production of B-29s ended
but has been operated
by Lockheed and now Lockheed Martin since the 1950's. In this 50
year plus time span there have been 386 B-47s, 285 C-141's, 81 C-5's, 50
C-5B's and over 2,000 C-130's produced at this site. It still continues to
build C-130s and is now the final F-22 assembly point. |
| Bellanca |
New Castle, DE |
(39) AT-21 |
|
BL |
|
|
| Boeing Aircraft Corp. |
Seattle, WA |
(3) B-29; (6,942) B-17; (320) A-20;(1)
PBY |
|
BO |
B |
Boeing employed upwards of
50,000 in it's Washington plants. This facility currently exists and
is used for storage for Boeing historical aircraft such as the B-307 and 707 prototype. |
| Boeing Aircraft Corp. |
Renton, WA |
(998) B-29; (2) C-97) |
. |
BN |
B |
This is still an operating building
for assembly of 737s and 757s. |
| Boeing Aircraft Corp. |
Wichita, KS |
(1,595) B-29; (7,839) PT-17 |
|
BW |
B, S (for Stearman
production) |
Forty thousand were employed
in the Witchita area where the last Kaydet was produced in February of 1945.
The plant still currently operates building 737 fuselages. |
| Brewster Aircraft Corp. |
Jonesville, PA |
(1052) SB2A;(108) F2A-2; (735) F3A |
|
|
A |
This is also known as
Warminster, PA and the plant was seized by the government late in WWII.
The facility was then operated by the US Navy at the Naval Air Development
Center and then later as the Naval Air Warfare Center until it was closed
in 1996. Check our Plant Photos Page
to view more information on the site history. To date we can only account
for 1895 of the 1997 that was published after WWII that Brewster produced. |
| Brewster Aircraft Corp. |
Long Island City, NY |
(2) XA-32 |
|
|
A |
This may have been Queens
rather than Long Island and was the Brewster Corporate Headquarters.
At this location Brewster built Buffalos that were sold to Finland,
Belgium, Great Britain, and The Netherlands. However, the parts had
to be trucked to the Newark, NJ airport for final assembly, testing and
fly away. |
| Budd Mfg. Co. |
Philadelphia, PA |
(17) RB-1 |
|
BU |
|
The last aircraft was
delivered in March of 1944. |
| Cessna Aircraft Co. |
Wichita, KS |
(3,206) C/UC-78, (673)
AT-8, (1,480) AT-17 |
|
CE |
C |
Cessna also built gliders( see
my glider page for more info) and built parts for both the B-29 and A-26.
Peak employment was 6,074 working in 468,000 square feet of manufacturing
and assembly facilities. the total value of war goods produced was
$191,753,000. Not bad for a company that in 1939 had $5.03 left in
its bank account. |
| Columbia Aircraft |
Valley Stream, NY |
(319) J2F-6 |
|
|
|
One source claims 330 J2F-6's
were built. This may include aircraft for the US Coast Guard as
well. The Ducks were built in 1942-45. Columbia, which was on
Long Island with Grumman, took over the production of these aircraft in
order that Grumman could concentrate on new projects. |
| Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft
Corp. |
San Diego, CA (Plant 1) |
(? )PBY, (4) B-32
(?)Coronado |
45,000 |
CO |
Y |
This was located at Lindberg
Field and was the original Consolidated facility in San Diego. It
was razed in 1997 and to date still stands empty. Over 45,000 persons
worked for Consolidated in the San Diego area. |
| Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft
Corp. |
San Diego, CA (Plant 2) |
(6,725) B-24 (unknown split
with Plant 1) |
incl. |
CO |
Y |
Construction began in November
of 1940 and the plant was completed in 1941as a government owned
facility, which was specifically built for the production of the
B-24 Liberator and was sold as surplus at the end of WWII. In 1957
the building was repurchased by the government for Atlas missile
production and became Air Force Plant 19. Forty years later In
1997 the US Navy took control and it is now occupied by the U.S. Navy
Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) as its
headquarters. |
| Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft
Corp. |
Fort Worth, TX |
(2,743) B-24, (114) B-32,
(291) C-87 (1) XB-36 |
32,000 |
CF |
Y |
Built for production of the
B-24 and employing 32,000 workers, the Fort Worth plant also built a
total of 385 B-36's including the XB-36, which was rolled out of the
hangar on Sept 8, 1945 and flew for the first time on August 8, 1946. Now
a Lockheed Plant, it is still operating and building F-16s |
| Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft
Corp. |
Downey, CA |
(11,537) BT-13, BT-15 |
- |
VU |
V |
Originally a Vultee facility. |
| Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft
Corp. |
Nashville, TN |
(1,529) A-31, A-35 (113) P-38
(?) L-1 |
- |
VN |
V |
Now a Vought Facility. |
| Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft
Corp. |
Allentown, PA |
(174) TBY-2 |
|
|
Y |
Due to the fact that this new
government funded production plant was not completed until 1943 the Vought
designed torpedo bomber TBY-2 was never used in service as by then the
Grumman TBM was operated by all US Navy torpedo squadrons. |
| Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft
Corp. |
New Orleans, LA |
(221) PBY |
|
|
Y |
|
| Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft
Corp. |
Wayne, MI |
(500) AT-19, (3,590) L-5 |
|
VW |
V |
This was the Stinson Division
of Consolidated- Vultee. Stinson and Vultee Merged in 1940.
When Consolidated and Vultee merged in 1943 Stinson then became a division
of the new company. It was sold to Piper in 1948. |
| Culver Aircraft Corp |
Wichita, KS |
(19) Liaisons |
|
CL |
|
Culver was known more for the
over 2,000 target drones it produced. |
| Curtiss-Wright Corp. |
Buffalo, NY (Genesee St.) |
(13,902) P-40,(354) P-47, (2,711) C-46
(271) SOC |
- |
CU |
C |
This location was the main
manufacturing site for the P-40s and C-46s in Buffalo. Constructed
in 1941 it covered 1,500,000 square feet and also was where the license
built P-47Gs were manufactured in 1942. These went to stateside
training units and two were built up as 2 seaters. With the demise
of Curtiss aircraft after WWI this facility closed in 1945, was eventually
purchased by Westinghouse, and torn down in 2000. |
| Curtiss-Wright Corp. |
Buffalo, NY (Kenmore & Vulcan
Streets) |
(3,836) P-40 |
|
CU |
C |
Originally built as an
engine plant in 1929, the plant produced some of the 13,902 P-40s built in
Buffalo by Curtiss. Due to the fact that it was not intended for aircraft
manufacture the P-40s had to take off using the parking lot and proceed to
Genesee Plant at the Buffalo Airport for delivery. |
| Curtiss-Wright Corp. |
Columbus, OH |
(5,106) SB2C, (795) SO3C, (562) SC-1,
(10) SC-2 |
13,000 |
|
C |
This plant, which was owned by
the US Navy for production of its aircraft in WWII, closed at the
cessation of hostilities but was taken over by North American Aviation
several years later. It was at this location the Fury, A-5, T-2
and OV-10 were built. Parts of the building are still in used
today for commercial purposes. |
| Curtiss-Wright Corp. |
St. Louis, MO |
(900) A-25, (29) C-46, (791)
AT-9, (505) Navy Trainers |
- |
CS |
C |
This plant was taken over by
McDonnell Aircraft after WWII and was used to build the entire series of
it's post WWII navy fighter series. It is now operated by Boeing Plant is still
used for the final assembly of F/A-18s. |
| Curtiss-Wright Corp. |
Louisville, KY |
(458) C-46 |
|
|
C |
After the war this plant was
used for the construction of International Harvester tractors. |
| Douglas Aircraft
Co., Inc. |
Santa Monica, CA |
(6,006) A-20, (60)
P-70 (460) C-54 |
40,000 |
DO |
D |
This was
originally known as Clover Field and was the Headquarters for the Douglas
Aircraft Company, which during the war employed 160,000 workers in six
plants throughout the country. Forty thousand worked at the Santa
Monica facility, which was torn down in the 1980's, and the land it
occupied is now an industrial park, The Museum of
Flying, and civilian aircraft hangars. |
| Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. |
Long Beach, CA |
(1,155) A-26, (999) A-20,
(3,000) B-17, (4,285) C-47 |
- |
DL |
D |
This was the largest plant in
the Douglas Company and was built in 1941 for the production of military production.
It was torn down in 2002. |
| Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. |
Tulsa, OK |
(1,291) A-26, (615) A-24,
(964) B-24 |
22,000 |
DT |
D |
Twenty-two thousand worked in
at Douglas Tulsa, which was closed after WWII but opened as a North
American Aviation facility in 1962 to make parts for the Hound Dog
Missile. Today it is owned by Boeing and makes parts for many of its
aircraft. |
| Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. |
Oklahoma, OK |
(5,319) C-47 |
|
DK |
D |
This plant was originally
going to produce C-54s but that production was moved to Chicago, IL.
Construction took place in 1942. |
| Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. |
El Segundo, CA |
(3) A-26, (170) A-24, (5,154) SBD |
- |
DE |
D |
This was originally a Northrop
plant. Douglas had 51% share in this in 1938. When Jack
Northrop left to start another company it became the El Segundo Division
of Douglas Aircraft. |
| Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. |
Chicago, IL |
(629) C-54 |
- |
DC |
D |
This was a small farming
community known as Orchard Place in 1942, which today it is known as
Chicago O'Hare International Airport. The US government acquired 1300
acres for the Douglas plant and airport. Cost of the entire project
was $40,500,000 which included (4) 5,500 x 150 ft runways, 1,300,000
square ft of paved areas, parking for 6,300 automobiles, and a 2 million
square foot assembly building, constructed entirely of wood.
Construction began on main assembly building began in August of 1942 and
the first C-54 came off the assembly line in July of 1943.
Production ceased in October of 1945. No further aircraft production
took place at this location. |
| Eastern Aircraft Division (GM) |
Linden, NJ |
(1060) FM-1, (4777) FM-2 |
- |
- |
M |
The General Motors FM-2 was
the most numerous Wildcat variant produced. From mid-1943 to the end of
the war, General Motors' Eastern Aircraft division built 4,777 FM-2s --
nearly 70% of all Wildcats produced. The FM-2 differed from the original
Grumman F4F in a number of ways. The FM-2 had a lighter, yet more powerful
Wright R-1820 radial engine. Additionally, the plane carried four rather
than six .50 caliber machine guns and was often fitted with HVARs
(High-Velocity Aircraft Rockets) for use against ground targets, ships or
surfaced submarines. The FM-2 also had a larger tail than the standard F4F
to counter the increased torque produced by the Wright engine.- |
| Eastern Aircraft Division (GM) |
Trenton, NJ |
(7,546)TBM |
|
|
M |
Eastern Aircraft, General Motor's aircraft division, produced TBMs at an
astounding rate, turning out 400 TBMs in March 1945 alone. Eastern built
7,546 TBMs or 77% of all Avengers produced. When the Avenger production
lines stopped in 1945, nearly 10,000 Avengers had been built, making the
aircraft the most produced naval strike aircraft of all time. |
| Engineering and Research Corp. |
Riverside, MD |
(1) C-55 |
|
|
|
|
| Fairchild |
Hagerstown, MD |
(5,000+ ) PT-19, (2) XP-23,
(670) PT-26, (1,012) UC-61, (2) C-82
(1) AT-21 |
|
FA |
K |
Fairchild had in 1939 141
employees that ballooned to 8,117 in May of 1943. Due to the
"Hagerstown System", which utilized 27 of the local businesses and
manufacturers to provide subassemblies and components for its aircraft,
Fairchild directly or indirectly employed 80% of the populace and 90% of
the industrial capacity of the area during WWII. Fairchild's main
final assembly facility, Plant 2, built in 1941 to construct an order of
270 PT-19s, was later expanded in 1944 to be able to manufacture the C-82.
The plant after WWII built 223 C-82s, 1,112 C-119s, 303 C-123s, 207 F-27s
and FH-227s and final assembly for 699 A-10s, the last of which rolled off
the assembly line on March 20, 1984. The wings and fuselage were
built at Fairchild's Republic Division in Farmingdale, NY and then trucked
to Hagerstown for assembly and flight testing. |
| Fairchild |
Burlington, North Carolina |
(105) AT-21 |
|
FB |
K |
This was a former
rayon mill that was converted to aircraft production. |
| Fisher Body (GM) |
Cleveland, OH |
(14) P-75 |
|
GC |
|
The Cleveland Fisher Body
Plant was also the main subcontractor of for the B-29 program. |
| Fleetwings, Inc |
Bristol, PA |
(25) BY-12 |
|
FL |
K |
|
| Ford |
Willow Run, MI |
(6,792) B-24 |
42,000 |
FO |
|
After WWII Kaiser automobiles were
produced in the plant until 1953. At that same time, GM's Livonia,
MI transmission plant burned down and production was moved to Willow Run.
The plant is has just got a contract to produce a new six speed transmission
for General Motors. |
| G&A Aircraft Corp. |
Willow Grove, PA |
(7) Rotary Aircraft |
|
GA |
|
|
| Globe Aircraft Corp. |
Fort Worth, TX |
(600) AT-10 |
|
|
|
|
| Goodyear |
Akron, OH |
(4,007) FG-1, (15)FG-2 |
- |
GO |
G |
The final assembly building D for the Goodyear built Corsair was on the north side of the Airlock, which
is the local landmark at the Akron Fulton Airport. Both structures
still exist along with several others from WWII which are now owned and
operated by Lockheed Martin. Goodyear also built components for
other aircraft manufacturers, including outer wings and tail sections for
the Consolidated PB2Y Coronado. It also had a facility that was erected in
1941 west of Phoenix, AZ for more subassemblies, including the flight deck
for the PB2Y. Peak employment in January of 1945 was 7,668 workers. |
| Grumman |
Bethpage, NY |
(1,768) F4F, (12,275) F6F,
(264) F7F, F8F, G-21A, G-44, (144) J2F-5, (2,293) TBF |
25,000 |
GR |
F |
Peak employment during the war
was 25,000. Grumman continued at this site until the 1990's when it
was purchased by Northrop. Most of the land has been redeveloped
into both commercial and residential areas. Another 100 F7F's were
constructed though the end of 1946 for a total of 364 aircraft. |
| Higgins Aircraft, Inc |
New Orleans, LA |
(2) C-46 |
|
HI |
|
The original order was for 500
C-46A transports, but only two were delivered in 1944 after cancellation
of the contract, due to changing military requirements. Higgins did
build wing panels for the C-46 throughout the conflict. |
| Howard Aircraft Corp. |
Chicago, Il |
(32) GH-1, (131) GH-2, (115)
GH-3, (205) NH-1, (349) PT-23 |
|
HO |
H |
Howard had two plants.
One was at Midway Airport and the second which opened in 1942 and was east
of the Dupage County Airport across the road. Finished aircraft had
to be pushed across the road to the airfield which had been taken over by
the US Navy as training field during the war. Howard Aircraft ceased
aircraft production in 1944. |
| Interstate Aircraft and
Engineering Corp |
El Segundo, CA |
(251) L-6, (8) L-8 |
|
IN |
R |
After WWII Interstate sold the
rights to the S-1 Cadet (L-6) to
Harlow Aircraft
and went into the consumer home
cleaning and vacuum systems business. |
| Hughes |
Culver City, CA |
HK-1(H-4) |
- |
HU |
|
The HK-1 or H-4 is the Spruce
Goose which was never accepted by the government although it spent $22
million on it($262 million in today's dollars) and finally flew for one
time only in November of 1947. In 1945 80,000 person were not only
working on the H-4 but doing considerable prototyping and subcontracting
for other aircraft manufacturers. The facility was sold in 1995 and
has since become a movie studio sound stage. |
| Kellett Autogiro Corp. |
Philadelphia, PA |
(7) O-60 |
|
KE |
|
This was an autogiro. |
| Lockheed |
Burbank, CA (Plant B-1) |
(9,423) P-38. (500) F-4, F-5, |
94,000 corp. |
LO |
O |
Facility razed in 1993 and now
a shopping mall. |
| Lockheed |
Burbank, CA (Plant A-1) |
(2,750) B-17, (1,600)PV-1,
(535) PV-2 Hudson? C-60?? |
. |
VE |
V |
Torn down in 2000 and no
redevelopment to date. |
| Lockheed |
Burbank, CA (Plant B-6) |
(14) C-69 |
incl. |
LO |
O |
After WWII U-2, SR-71 and
F-117A were assembled in this plant. Between the years of 1993-1998
the plant was torn down and remained vacant. Trivia- A 16 year old
Barbara Jean (Marylyn Monroe) worked at one of the Lockheed Plants during
WWII and married her first husband while working there. In packing
sandwiches for him and herself, she would also make a couple extra for a
friend of his, Robert Mitchum. |
| Glenn L Martin Co |
Middle River, MD |
(3,572) B-26, (1,575) A-30,
(1,275) PBM, (1*)JRM |
53,000 |
MA |
M |
Plant 1-This is the original
plant established in 1929 after Glenn Martin moved to Maryland from
Cleveland, OH. It currently still stands and is operated by GE which
makes thrust reversers.
Plant 2- This Albert Kahn designed plant of 1.9 million square feet on 50
acres also still stands, having been taken back over by the government for
use as a storage depot after Martin stopped building aircraft and missiles
in 1964. It was sold in an internet sale in 2006 by GSA.
Lockheed-Martin still maintains a 163 acre campus nearby.
*20 JRM's were ordered in January 1945, but only one was completed by the
end of the war. It was destroyed in an accident on August 5, 1945. |
| Glenn L Martin Co |
Omaha, NE |
(515) B-29, (1,585) B-26 |
14,000 |
MO |
M |
Built in 1940-41 and
commencing production of B-26s in early 1941, the Government owned plant
was built on the premises of Offutt Field which was part of Fort Crook.
Included in the complex was the 1.7 million square foot main assembly
plant designed by architect Albert
Kahn, and six hangars which were part of a modification center. In
1945 there were 11,019 employees in the main plant and 2,198 in the
modification center. President Roosevelt toured the plant on
4-26-1943 along with Glenn Martin and Nebraska Governor Dwight Griswold.
Due to its performance of obtaining 33
consecution months of on time delivery, the plant was awarded the
Army-Navy "E" Award four times. Both the B-29 "Enola Gay" and "Bockscar"
were built and then modified for their special missions at Omaha.
Col. Paul Tibbets actually came to Omaha and picked out his aircraft. |
| McDonnell |
Memphis, TN |
(30) AT-21, |
|
MM |
D(changed to H in 1946) |
This was a 43,000 square foot
plant government plant that was completed in January of 1943. |
| McDonnell |
St. Louis, MO |
(1) XP-67, (1)XFD-1 |
|
MC |
D(changed to H in 1946) |
McDonnell was forced into the
subcontractor role in WWII due to the fact it could not meet the
government requirement of having mass manufacturing capabilities to build
an aircraft designed by the company. In 1941 McDonnell purchased 87
acres of land near the St. Louis airport that would after the war be used
for its expansion. Peak wartime employees for
McDonnell was 5,212 employees, most of which were manufacturing
subcomponents for Douglas and Boeing. The XFD-1, which made its
first flight on Jan. 26, 1945, was the first Navy jet fighter and lead to
the FH-1 Phantom. After the war McDonnell also acquired the former
Curtiss-Wright plant at the St. Louis airport to continue manufacturing of
its new line of naval carrier fighters. |
| Nash-Kelvinator Corp. |
Detroit, MI |
(201) R-6 |
|
NK |
|
|
| N.A.F. |
Philadelphia, PA |
(31) SBN, (44) SOC, (331)
OS2U-1, (156) PBN(PBY) |
- |
- |
N |
PBN is PBY SBN was Brewster designed SBA
562 out ofTotal 1302 |
| North American |
Inglewood, CA |
(2,163) AT-6, (9,949) P-51,
(500) A-36, (3,208) B-25 |
|
NA |
J |
This was the where NAA moved
to in 1935 from Dundalk, MA for production of the BT-19 trainer. In
its original form it was 158,678 square feet and was the headquarters and
engineering center for the company. After WWII NAA produced the F-86,
F-100, Sabreliner, X-15 B-45, and B-70Inglewood Airport evolved into Los
Angeles International Airport after the war and consequently the NAA
facility was torn down in the 1980's to make way for an air cargo
operation. |
| North American |
Kansas City, KS |
(6,608) B-25 |
|
NC |
J |
Plant Code
NAA-K. Ground breaking for this million square foot plant was March 8,
1941, with the first B-25 coming off the line on December 23, 1941. The
plant employed a total of 59,337 persons during the war and had a peak
employment of 24, 329 in October of 1943. There were plans for
a while during WWII to build B-29s and P-80s in the facility. After the war GM
purchased the plant and assembled Buicks, Oldsmobiles and Pontiacs (BOP).
During the Korean war GM also produced 599 F-84F-GKs while continuing the
auto assembly, which is the only time that aircraft and auto production
have been run down parallel lines simultaneously. In 1989 GM built a new
assembly plant on the site of the airport and the original building was
torn down and is now vacant land. For more information the best
source is the "Fairfax Ghosts" by George R Bauer in published in
1995. The book is out of print but still available at online
sources. |
| North American |
Dallas/Grand Prairie, TX (Plant
A) |
(12,967) AT-6, (4,552) P-51,
(299) F-6 |
- |
NT |
J |
This million square foot plant
was built specifically for the production of
AT-6, with ground breaking on September 28, 1940 and production commencing
in March of 1941. Production began March 1941. This is now the
Headquarters location for Vought Aircraft. |
| North American |
Dallas/Grand Prairie, TX (Plant
B) |
(966) B-24 |
|
NT |
J |
Production of B-24s was from
March,1943 through November of 1944. |
| Northrop |
Hawthorne, CA |
(400) A-31, (682) P-61, (24)
N-3PB |
|
NO |
T |
After WWII the Northrop
manufactured F-89s, F-5s, T-38s and Snark missiles at this site and it is
still occupied by a small force of Northrop Grumman Aviation employees.
Also, Vought manufactures Boeing 747 fuselages and aft panes for the
Boeing 767 at this location. |
| Piper Aircraft Corp. |
Lockhaven, PA |
(5,611) L-4, (230)NE-1, (100)
NE-2 |
|
PI |
E |
NE-1 is Navy version of L-4
and NE-2 is the Navy version of a J-5. |
| Platt-LePage Aircraft Corp. |
Eddystone, PA |
(2) R-1 |
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| Rearwin Aircraft |
Kansas City, KS |
(25) Liaison |
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| Republic |
Farmingdale, NY |
(272) P-43, (9,006) P-47 |
24,000 |
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Republic Airport was
originally founded by Fairchild Engine and Aircraft Manufacturing Company
in 1928. In 1931 Fairchild moved to Hagerstown, MD and between 1932
and 1937 Grumman occupied the airport and built aircraft before moving to
Bethpage, NY. Seversky moved in during 1936 and became Republic Aircraft
in 1939. After WWII the F-84 and F-105 were built at this location,
along with several of the first A-10s, by which time Republic had been
purchased by Fairchild. However, for the last 699 out of the 713
A-10s produced the wings and fuselage were built by Fairchild's Republic
Division in Farmingdale, NY, and then trucked to Fairchild's
Hagerstown plant for assembly and flight testing.
After Fairchild-Republic went out of business in 1985 the manufacturing
and engineering facilities were redeveloped into the Airport Plaza
Shopping Mall. Today the American Air Power Museum also makes its
home at the Republic Airport. |
| Republic |
Evansville, IN |
(6,225) P-47 |
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Ground breaking and
construction of this $16 million plant began on April 7, 1942 and five
months later on September 20, 1942 the first P-47 came off of the assembly
line. The 5,000 employees were visited by Franklin D, Roosevelt in
1943. After the war International Harvester purchased the facility
and then sold it to Whirlpool in 1955 for the manufacture of
refrigerators. The plant is still producing products for Whirlpool
today. |
| Ryan Aeronautical Corp. |
San Diego |
(392) PT-20,21,25, (1,048)
PT-22, (100) NR-1, (46) FR-1 |
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A total of 66 FR-1s were
completed by the end of 1945, which was the entire build for this
aircraft. The PT-22 was the only aircraft to be built entirely in
California. The engine was built in Glendale at the old Grand
Central Airport. |
| St. Louis Aircraft Corp. |
St. Louis, MO |
(13) PT-19, (350) PT-23 |
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| Sikorsky Aircraft |
Stratford, CT |
(130) R-4, (16) R-5, (5) R-6 |
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| Spartan Aircraft Corp. |
Tulsa, OK |
(201) NP-1 |
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| Taylorcraft Aviation Corp. |
Alliance, OH |
(1,940) L-2 |
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This facility still exists
today and is located at 16125 Armour Street, N.E, east of Ohio Route 225
on the north side of Alliance, Ohio. It is currently operated by
Sancap Liner Technologies. |
| Timm |
Van Nuys, CA |
(260) N2T-1 |
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Vought |
Stratford, CT |
( 7,056) F4U. (1,208) OS2U |
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Vought moved to Dallas in |
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Universal Aircraft |
Bristol, VA |
(19) L-7 |
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| Waco |
Troy, OH |
(6) PT-24 |
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There is currently a Waco
Museum at the current 2,200 foot grass runway airport. Waco
concentrated on the manufacture of Combat Gliders in WWII. (See my Glider
page) |
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