Convair

Convair was an American aircraft manufacturing company which later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. Convair existed as a company for the design, development, and manufacturing of high-technology aerospace products, and/or sub-units of them, or else was a subsidiary of a larger corporation. Convair existed as a company from 1943 until 1994. The Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, whose name was in the course of time changed to Convair t... more
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