5 Leading Aircraft Manufacturer in America

U.S. aerospace world, at least tinged renowned airline companies. Among the many airline company, creating products that keep aircraft legendary history of its own. Here are 5 famous American aircraft manufacturer


1. Boeing Company
 
Boeing Company is a manufacturer of aircraft and aerospace, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with its largest production facility in Everett, Washington, near Seattle, Washington He is also a defense contractor, and a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Boeing was founded by William Edward Boeing, which initially was a businessman and a successful loggers. Together with his colleague George Conrad Westervelt in 1916, he founded the company aircraft factory which was then called Pacific Aero Products. The two main divisions of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is Boeing (IDS), responsible for military and space products, and Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), is responsible for civilian aircraft.



2. McDonnell Douglas


McDonnell Douglas is a U.S. aerospace company famous. The company was formed in 1967 between Douglas merged with McDonnell Aircraft Company Aircraft Corporation. In 1997 McDonnell Douglas became part of Boeing.



3. Northrop Grumman Corporation



Northrop Grumman Corporation is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of a merger in 1994 between the company and Northrop Grumman. The main component was added later with the takeover of Logicon, Teledyne Ryan, Litton (Ingalls, Avondale), Newport News, and TRW (sans LucasVarity). In 2005 Ronald Sugar is its CEO.

The most famous product of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is. In 2002 the company employed 120,000 people working in hundreds of locations in the U.S. and beyond, and has annual revenues of U.S. $ 17.2 billion (~ Rp150 trillion).



4. Lockheed Martin



Lockheed Martin is an aircraft manufacturer established in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. He is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland and employs 135,000 people worldwide. Until 2007, Robert J. Stevens was its CEO. Lockheed Martin is a major defense contractor. In 2003 almost 80% of its customers are the U.S. Department of Defense and other Federal Government of the United States.



5. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation


Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation is a producer of several models of jet aircraft. Gulfstream has been a unit of General Dynamics since 2001. The company has produced more than 1,500 aircraft for government, corporate, private, and military customers around the world. More than a quarter of the Fortune 500 companies operate Gulfstream aircraft.





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