- List of Sherman Fairchild companies
Overlooked by historians, the press and the public were the vast holdings of Sherman Mills Fairchild. His vast stock, real estate and other private holding may never be fully known. Fortunately a former Fairchild employee, Theron Rinehart, rescued from destruction an incomplete list of companies Fairchild owned. The following is a list of Sherman Fairchild companies;
*1920
Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation
*1922Fairchild Aerial Surveys (of Canada) Limited
*1924Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc
*1924S.M. Fairchild Flying Corporation
*1925Fairchild Aerial Camera
*1925Fairchild Caminez Engine Corporation
*1925Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation
*1925Fairchild Flying Company (name changed from S.M. Fairchild Flying Corporation)
*1925Fairchild Aviation Corporation (holding company for Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation, Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc., Fairchild Flying Company, Inc., Fairchild Caminez Engine Corporation, Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation and Fairchild Aerial Surveys (of Canada) Ltd.
*1925Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation
*1926Elliot-Fairchild Air Services, Ltd.
*1926Elliot-Fairchild Air Transport, Ltd.
*1927Fairchild Aviation, Ltd. (reorganization and refinancing of the following subsidiaries and minority holdings; Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation, Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc., Fairchild Flying Company, Inc., Fairchild Caminez Engine Corporation, Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation, Fairchild Aviation, Ltd., CompaniaMexicana de Aviacion , S.A. (20% stock) and International Aerial Engineering Company (20% stock)
*1928Faircam Reality Corporation
*1928Fairchild Boats, Inc.
* 1928Fairchild Engine Corporation
* 1928V.E. Clark Corporation
* 1928West Indian Aerial Express, Inc.
* 1928Fairchild Aviation of Illinois
* 1929Kreider-Resner Aircraft Company, Inc. (82% stock)
* 1929Fairchild Shares Corporation
* 1929Fairchild Aircraft, Ltd.
* 1930Fairchild-American Photo Aerial Surveys, S.A. * 1932
Fairchild Airplane Sales Corporation
* 1934Fairchild Aircraft Corporation
* 1936Fairchild Aviation, Inc.
* 1936Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation (holding company for Fairchild Aircraft Corporation, Ranger Engineering Corporation and Fairchild Aircraft, Ltd. (50% stock)
* 1937Duramold Aircraft Corporation
* 1938Clark Corporation
* 1938Fairchild Investments Corporation
* 1938Molded Aircraft Corporation (name changed from Duramold Aircraft Corporation)
* 1938Duramold Aircraft Corporation
* 1939Ranger Corporation
* 1941AL-FIN Corporation
* 1945 Fairchild Pilotless Planes Division formed by Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation
* 1945 Fairchild Personal Planes Division formed by Fairchild Engine and Airplane Division
* 1946 Fairchild-NEPA (Nuclear powered aircraft engines) Division is formed by Fairchild Engine Engine and Airplane Corporation
* 1949 Fairchild Guided Missiles Division (name change from Pioletless Planes Division)
* 1953 Fairchild Speed Control Division formed by Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation
* 1953 Fairchild Aviation, (Holland) N.V.
* 1954 American Helicopter Division formed by Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation
* 1954 Fairchild Kinetics Division formed by Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation
* 1955 Fairchild Armalite Division formed by Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation
* 1956 Fairchild Electronics Division (name change from Fairchild Guided Missiles Division
* 1957Jonco Aircraft Corporation
* 1958 Fairchild Astronautics Division (name change from Fairchild Guided Missiles Division
* 1958 International Aluminum Structures Inc.
* 1960 Astrionics Division (name changed from Electronics Division)
* 1960 Aircraft Service Division* 1961 Fairchild Stratos Corporation ( operating division; subsidiaries and affiliates: Aircraft Missiles Division, Aircraft Service Division, Electronic System Division, Stratos Division, Fairchild Arms International Ltd., Fairchild Aviation (Holland) N.V., and Aerotest Laboratories, Inc.)
* 1962 Space Systems Division formed by Fairchild Stratos Corporation
* 1962Hiller Aircraft Company, Inc.
* 1964Fairchild-Hiller Corporation (name change from Fairchild Stratos Corporation; division and subsidiaries; Aircraft Missiles Division, Aircraft Services Division, Electronics Systems Division, Inc., Fairchild Aviation (Holland) N.V. and Fairchild Arms International, Inc.
* 1965Republic Aviation Company
* 1965 Republic Aviation Division
* 1965 Electronic and Information Division (formed by combining Electronic Systems Division, Data Systems Engineering and similar disciplines fromRepublic Aviation Company
* 1966Burnes Aero Seat Company, Inc.
* 1966 Fairchild-Hiller-FRG Corporation
* 1966 Aircraft Division formed by combining Space Systems Division and Electronic and Information Systems Division
* 1966 Industrial Products Division forms from the Industrial Products branch of Stratos Division
* 1967 S.J. Industries, Inc.
* 1967Air Carrier Engine Services, Inc.
* 1967Fairchild Chemical Corporation
* 1967 EWR-Fairchild International
* 1968 Fairchild Marketing Company
* 1968 FAIRMICCO
* 1969 Fairchild-Germantown Development Company, Inc.
* 1970 Fairchild Aviation (Asia) Ltd.*1971
Fairchild Industries, Inc. Name change from Fairchild Hiller Corporation, division and subsidiaries: Fairchild Aircraft Marketing Company, Fairchild Aircraft Services Division, Fairchild Republic Division, Fairchild Space and Electronics Division, Fairchild Stratos Division, Burns Aero Seat Company, Inc., Fairchild Arms International, Ltd., Fairchild Aviation (Asia) Ltd., Fairchild Aviation (Holland) N.V., Fairchild-Germantown Development Company, Inc. and S.J. Industries, Inc
*1971 Fairchild KLIF, Inc.
*1971Swearinger Aviation Corporation
*1972American Satellite Corporation
*1972 Fairchild Minnesota, Inc.
*1972 Fairchild International Sales Corporation
*1979Bunker Ramo Corporation (18.4% stock)
*1980American Satellite Company
*1980 Space Communications Company (] Spacecom] ) (25% stock)
*1980 Saab-Fairchild HB
*1981 Fairchild Swearinger Corporation (name changed from Swearinger Aviation Corporation)
*1982 Fairchild Credit Corporation
*1982 Fairchild Control Systems Company
*1983 Fairchild Space Company and Fairchild Electronics Company (formed fromFairchild Space and Electronics CompanyReferences
List Source; NASM Archives, List compiled by Kristin L. Kaske, 2003 from a gift of papers by Theron Rhinehart
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