Lockheed Corporation
ja:ロッキード nl:Lockheed Lockheed Air Corporation was an aerospace company established in 1932 from the remnants of a bankrupt predecessor founded four years earlier by the brothers Allan and Malcolm Loughhead, after whom the company was named. The company's headquarters were in Bethesda, Maryland.
Also currently called Lockheed Martin Corporation ([LMT (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=LMT)])
The company built both commercial and military aircraft.
In 1995, the company merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin.
Planes
Some famous Lockheed planes:
- U-2 reconnaissance
- SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance
- F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter
- F-104 Starfighter multi-mission fighter
- P-38 Lightning two-engine fighter
- P-80 Shooting Star jet fighter
- F-94 Starfire all-weather fighter
- S-3 Viking patrol/attack
- P2V Neptune maritime patrol
- P-3 Orion ASW patrol
- Lockheed Hudson maritime patrol/bomber
- C-130 Hercules (AC-130 gunship variant) medium combat transport
- C-141 Starlifter long-range jet transport
- C-5 Galaxy heavy transport
- Lockheed JetStar business jet
- Lockheed Vega civil transport
- L-1011 TriStar airliner
- Lockheed Constellation civil transport
- L-188 Electra civil transport
External link
- Lockheed Brothers (http://www.pbs.org/kcet/chasingthesun/innovators/lockheed.html) from PBS