Vultee Aircraft
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Vultee Aircraft, Inc., was an aircraft manufacturer founded in 1939 in Los Angeles County, California, when the Vultee Aircraft Division of the aviation holding company AVCO was reorganized as an inde
1936-built Vultee V-1 executive aircraft, displayed at the Virginia Aviation Museum.
Hanging an engine on a BT-13 Valiant trainer at the Vultee aircraft plant, Downey, California, in World War II.
Consolidated Aircraft
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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
Vultee Aircraft
…Vultee Aircraft Division of the aviation holding company AVCO was reorganized as an independent company. It had limited success before merging with the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation on March 17–18, 1943, to form the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation − or Convair. In 1932, Errett Lobban Cord formed the Airplane Development…
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