The North American Manufacturer NAA.
North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer that designed and built several notable aircraft and spacecraft. Its products included the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, the XB-70, the B-1 Lancer, the Apollo command and service module, the second stage of the Saturn V rocket, and the Space Shuttle orbiter.
Clement Melville Keys founded North American on December 6, 1928, as a holding company that bought and sold interests in various airlines and aviation-related companies. However, the Air Mail Act of 1934 forced the breakup of such holding companies. North American became a manufacturing company, run by James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, who had been recruited from Douglas Aircraft Company. NAA did retain ownership of Eastern Air Lines until 1938. General Motors Corporation took a controlling interest in NAA and merged it with the General Aviation Manufacturing Corporation in 1933, but retained the name North American Aviation.
The BC-1 of 1937 was North American's first combat aircraft; it was based on the GA-16. In 1940, like other manufacturers, North American started gearing up for war, opening factories in Columbus, Ohio, Dallas, Texas, and Kansas City, Kansas. North American ranked eleventh among United States corporations in the value of wartime production contracts
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Aircraft types
North American F-86 Sabre;
North American F-86K Sabre
North American F-100 Super Sabre;
North American FJ-1 Fury
North American F3J Fury;
North American A-5 Vigilante
North American AJ Savage
North American T-2 Buckeye;
North American T-6 Harvard;
North American T-28 Trojan;
North American T-39 Sabreliner
North American OV-10 Bronco
North American XB-70 Valkyrie
WW2
North American P-51 Mustang;
North American B-25 Mitchell
North American T-6A Texan Harvard
North American Spacecraft NAA
Apollo spacecraft being prepared for the Apollo 7 mission
In 1955, the rocket engine operations were spun off into a separate division as Rocketdyne. This division furnished engines for the Redstone, Jupiter, Thor, Delta, and Atlas missiles, and for NASA's Saturn family of launch vehicles.
North American designed and built the airframe for the X-15, a rocket-powered aircraft that first flew in 1959.
In 1959, North American built the first of several Little Joe boosters used to test the launch escape system for the Project Mercury spacecraft. In 1960, the new CEO Lee Atwood decided to focus on the space program, and the company became the prime contractor for the Apollo command and service module, a larger Little Joe II rocket to test Apollo's launch escape system, and the S-II second stage of the Saturn V.
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| An F-86 Sabre during a Heritage Flight over Davis-Monthan AFB | |
| Role | Fighter aircraft |
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| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | North American Aviation |
| First flight | 1 October 1947 |
| Introduction | 1949, with USAF |
| Retired | 1994 (Bolivian Air Force) |
| Number built | 9,860 |
| Developed from | North American FJ-1 Fury |
| Variants | Canadair Sabre North American FJ-2/-3 Fury |
| Developed into | CAC Sabre North American F-86D Sabre North American FJ-4 Fury North American YF-93 North American F-100 Super Sabre |
