- Fairchild Industries
Fairchild Industries was created from a 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. Prior to 1971 Fairchild Industries was a term use to include many of the companies of its founder
Sherman Mills Fairchild .The successor Corporation is now the
Fairchild Corporation NYSE FA. Most of the assets of the originalFairchild Industries Inc. have been sold and the company has a new focus. The last major asset sold wasFairchild Fasteners aSherman Fairchild company was sold toAlcoa for 657 Million onDecember 3 ,2002 and is now calledAlcoa Fasteners . In the summer of 2006 theFairchild Corporation sold a shopping mall they had built on theRepublic Airport property ofFairchild Hiller for 95 Million. They still own property atRepublic Airport fromFairchild Hiller . [ [http://www.fairchild.com/history.htm Fairchild History ] ]ee also
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Fairchild Aircraft References
External links
* [http://www.fairchild.com The Fairchild Corporation]
* [http://www.fairchild.com/history.htm Fairchild Corporation History]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E1DF1039F93BA25754C0A9649C8B63 Fairchild Fasteners sold for 657 Million]
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