1927
First becoming keenly interested in aviation during 1910, the brothers Allan and Malcolm Loughead (pronounced ...
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The very considerable success and proven reliability of the Vega made this aircraft of interest ...
1928
1929
The sole YP-24, delivered to the Army on 29 September 1931, was the first fighter ...
1931
When acquiring his Sirius, Charles Lindbergh had intimated that he might be interested in having ...
Seeing, in the latter part of 1930, a potential market for a light transport aircraft, ...
1934
Lockheed's first major move towards becoming a significant manufacturer of transport aircraft came with design ...
When the Lockheed 10 Electra first entered service, its 10-passenger capacity was considered to be ...
1936
1937
Designed to compete against the DST/ DC-2/DC-3 series being developed by the Douglas company, the ...
The Hudson was originally built to the order of the British government as a military ...
1938
1939
The P-38 was the only American fighter built before World War II to be still ...
Design and development of the Lockheed 18 Lodestar began as a result of the poor ...
Designed by Lockheed's subsidiary AiRover Company, which by 1938 became the Vega Airplane Company, the ...
The success of the Hudson in RAF service led Lockheed to propose a military ...
1940
1941
North American Aviation Inc, designed during 1937 the prototype of a lightweight primary trainer which ...
The Lockheed XP-49, its designation seemingly out of sequence in that it was a conception ...
1942
1943
Design of the Lockheed L-49 began in 1939 to meet the requirement of Pan American ...
In June 1943 Lockheed was instructed to proceed with the design and development of a ...
1944
The Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning resulted from a US Army contract, of 27 April 1943, ...
The first US Navy contract for two XP2V-1 Neptune maritime-reconnaissance bombers was placed in April ...
1945
1946
First flight 17 June 1946. Cancelled in 1948 in favour of Douglas DC-3.
Lockheed's P-80 Shooting Star has its own special niche in USAAF/USAF history. From it evolved ...
1948
Third member of Lockheed's F-80 family, the F-94 Starfire was evolved to satisfy a requirement ...
Although two prototypes of the Lockheed 89 Constitution were built for the US Navy, under ...
1950
The next stage in development of the Constellation was the L-1049 Super Constellation with ...
The Lockheed XF-90 was built to meet a USAF requirement for a long-range penetration fighter ...
1954
Lockheed's G. L. "Kelly" Johnson has designed some really exciting aircraft, but the company's Model ...
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop aircraft that serves as the main tactical ...
Under the designation Lockheed XFV-1, the company completed and flew the first of two prototypes ...
Development of the U-2 began in the spring of 1954 to meet a joint CIA/USAF ...
1955
1956
Last of the civil Constellation-derived airliners was the L-1649A Starliner, with a completely new wing ...
The design of the Lockheed L-188 Electra began in 1954, and in the following year the ...
1957
To meet a US Air Force requirement for an 'off-the-shelf' high-performance light transport, Lockheed developed ...
When in August 1957 the US Navy needed an advanced ASW/maritime patrol aircraft, the urgency ...
1959
During the late 1950s the Lockheed Georgia Company, Marietta, Georgia made a rare venture into ...
The USAF's SR-71A two-seat strategic-reconnaissance aircraft originates from the remarkable Lockheed A-11, detail design of ...
1961
1962
Under the company designation Lockheed VZ-120, Lockheed designed and developed two prototypes of a VTOL ...
The Lockheed C-141 Starlifter is a military strategic airlifter in service with the United States ...
1963
1968
The first C-5A Galaxy (#66-8303) was "rolled out" on 2 March 1968. On June 30th ...
The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the third widebody passenger jet airliner to reach the marketplace, ...
1970
1971
Faced with the military requirement for a quiet observation aircraft, Lockheed developed the two-seat Q-Star. ...
The Lockheed S-3 Viking is a United States Navy jet aircraft used to hunt and ...
1972
1977
Stealth technology demonstrator. The first prototype flew in December 1977. Both prototypes crashed.
Successfully kept secret for nearly 15 years, the Lockheed F-117A was the winning submission for the ...
1981
1990
Without doubt, the most exciting combat aircraft of the early twenty-first century is the Lockheed ...
The X-35 Joint Strike Fighter project originated in a 1980s requirement by the US Marine ...
2000
2006
The F-35 Lightning II — descended from the X-35 of the Joint Strike Fighter ...
