Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Co.

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Key people: brothers Allan Haines and Malcolm Loughead; mechanic John K. "Jack" Northrup.

Built large twin-engined F1 flying boat, able to carry 3,100 lb. payload including 12 passengers; first flight 28 March 1918. Task of laying out hull and stressing wings given to their young mechanic John K. Northrop. Also built land version of the F1, a hydroskimmer, a sport biplane, and two Curtiss airplanes under U.S. Navy contract before contract was cancelled post WWI. Company reorganized 1919; liquidated 1921.

Loughead is correctly pronounced "Lockheed;" but was frequently mispronounced as "Lug-Head;" to rectify this, the brothers took the spelling Lockheed as their last name in 1918 and used that spelling when establishing Lockheed Aircraft in 1926, which employed Northrup until he formed Avion Corp. in 1927. Lockheed Aircraft was sold in 1929 to Detroit Aircraft Corp. and in 1930 the brothers, reverting back to their old name, formed Loughead Brothers Aircraft Corp; that company failed in 1934 following the crash of its sole product. Allan tried the business again in 1937 with Alcor Aircraft in 1937, which failed in 1939. The Lockheed firm that we know today stems from successors to the Lockheed Division of Detroit Aircraft after its failure in 1938 and not from an enterprise of Allan or Malcolm Lockheed.

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Names Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Country US
City Santa Barbara
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Started aero 1916
Ended aero liquidated, 1921
Key people Allan Haines, Malcolm Loughead, John K. "Jack" Northrup
Wikidata id Q50527166