The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1923 by Reuben H. Fleet in Buffalo, New York, the result of the Gallaudet Aircraft Company's liquidation and Fleet's purchase of designs from the D
Tourists with a Consolidated Commodore flying boat used by Pan Am to fly routes in the Caribbean in the 1930s.
A Consolidated Aircraft hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport
Assembling a wing section, Fort Worth, Texas, October 1942
Consolidated Aircraft patch during WWII
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 expand
Consolidated Aircraft
…action in both the Pacific and European theaters. In 1943, Consolidated merged with Vultee Aircraft to form Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft, later known as Convair. The Los Angeles-based Consolidated Steel Corporation is not related. The name was often abbreviated to Consair, including within the company. For…
RIM-2 Terrier antiaircraft missile on board USS Providence
Atlas rocket launching Friendship 7, the first U.S. crewed orbital space flight