“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
Jack Northrop founded three companies using his name. The first was the Avion Corporation in 1928, which was absorbed in 1929 by the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation[2] as a subsidiary named “Northrop Aviation Corporation” (and later acquired by Boeing). The parent company moved its operations to Kansas in 1931, and so Jack, along with Donald Douglas, established a “Northrop Corporation” located in El Segundo, California, which produced several successful designs, including the Northrop Gamma and Northrop Delta. However, labor difficulties led to the dissolution of the corporation by Douglas in 1937, and the plant became the El Segundo Division of Douglas Aircraft.
Bombers
YA-9A • B-2 Spirit • YB-35 • YB-49
Fighters
F-5 Freedom Fighter • F-5ETiger II • YF-17 Cobra • F-20 Tigershark
YF-23 Black Widow II (mit McDonnell Douglas) • F-89 Scorpion
WW2 /Trainer & Others
N-32 Raider • P-61 Black Widow • XP-56 • XP-79 Flying Ram
T-38 Talon • X-4 Bantam • RQ-4 GlobalHawk • Tacit Blue • MQ-8 Firescout
“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”