North American Aviation Inc.

Place: Los Angeles

Born: 1928

Death: 1967

Biography:

North American Aviation Inc. 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. The company was founded in 1928 and through a series of mergers and sales, it became part of North American Rockwell, which later became Rockwell International, and is now part of Boeing.