Search the Kids Internet
Encyclopedia > Lockheed Corporation
Article Content
Lockheed Corporation
A corporate ancestor of Lockheed Martin, the Lockheed Corporation aerospace company was formed in 1932 by the brothers Allan[?] and Malcom Loughhead[?], who had built their first plane in 1913.
The company has built both commercial and military aircraft.
In 1996, the company merged with the Martin Marietta Corporation[?] 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 Vega civil transport
- L-1011 TriStar airliner
- Lockheed Constellation[?] civil transport
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
|
Search Encyclopedia
|