The Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded on February 14, 1934 by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California...

1957. Through his interest in aviation and aerospace travel, Hughes formed the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932, hiring numerous engineers, designers, and...

prototype strategic airlift flying boat designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Intended as a transatlantic flight transport for use during...

company began in 1947, as a unit of Hughes Aircraft, then was part of the Hughes Tool Company after 1955. It became the Hughes Helicopter Division, Summa Corporation...

The Hughes H-1 Racer is a racing aircraft built by Hughes Aircraft in 1935. Utilizing different wings, it set both a world airspeed record and a transcontinental...

The Hughes XF-11 (redesignated XR-11 in 1948) was a prototype military reconnaissance aircraft designed and flown by Howard Hughes and built by Hughes Aircraft...

research foundation in the world. HHMI is the former owner of the Hughes Aircraft Company, an American aerospace firm that was divested to various firms...

Twelve companies opted to participate in the competition, Hughes Tool Company's Aircraft Division being one of them, submitted the Model 369 as its response...

Hughes Electronics Corporation was formed in 1985 when Hughes Aircraft was sold by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to General Motors for $5.2 billion...

his subject of study was semiconductors. As an engineering intern at Hughes Aircraft, he played a major role in the development of the world's first EEPROM...

1937, Hughes used Hughes Tool to buy a controlling interest in TWA. In 1932, Hughes formed Hughes Aircraft Company as a division of the Hughes Tool Company...

produced and further developed by Schweizer after 1983. In 1955, Hughes Tool Company's Aircraft Division carried out a market survey which showed that there...

acquired by Hughes Aircraft Corporation for $105 million and renamed Hughes Communications. In 2004, News Corp acquired a controlling interest in Hughes through...

425 hp. During January 1984, Hughes Helicopters, the original manufacturer of the 500 series, was acquired by the American aircraft manufacturer McDonnell Douglas...

Hughes Jr.) the American business tycoon and founder of Hughes Aircraft. Howard Robard Hughes Sr. was born on September 9, 1869, in Lancaster, Missouri...

In 1935, Hughes test flies the H-1 Racer, pushing it to a new speed record, despite having to crash-land into a beet field when the aircraft runs out...

The Hughes Airport (IATA: CVR) was a private airport owned by Howard Hughes for the Hughes Aircraft Company. It was located just north of the Westchester...

produced by Hughes Helicopters, as a development of the Hughes 269. Later manufactured by Schweizer Aircraft, and currently produced by Schweizer RSG, the basic...

from 1924 to 1986. From 1932 to 1986, it was the headquarters for the Hughes Aircraft Company. National Public Radio West and Sony Pictures Entertainment...

this day. Development of a guided air-to-air missile began in 1946. Hughes Aircraft was awarded a contract for a subsonic missile under the project designation...

the Hughes XF-11. The sole D-2 was completed in 1942–1943. In 1937, Howard Hughes began the design of an advanced twin-engine, twin-boom aircraft. The...

(formerly Hughes Research Laboratories) is a research center in Malibu, California, established in 1960. Formerly the research arm of Hughes Aircraft, it is...

have included a modified shipborne version of the AN/AWG-9 radar. Hughes Aircraft touted the fact that 27 out of 29 major elements of the standard (airborne)...

and begun production in 1948, building the Nash Rambler. Howard Hughes' Hughes Aircraft Company formed the Aerospace Group within the company when they...

on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as payload specialist for Hughes Aircraft. Jarvis graduated from Mohawk Central High School (later renamed to...

aerospace engineer who made significant contributions to the work of Hughes Aircraft. The son of Edward John and Louise (Lewis) Odekirk, Glenn, also known...

the airline had been recently purchased by Howard Hughes and rebranded Hughes Airwest. The aircraft was piloted by Captain Theodore Nicolay, age 50, who...

announced the sale of the Missile Systems Division segment of Convair to Hughes Aircraft Company in May 1992 and the Space Systems Division segment to Martin...

remanufacturing many Tomahawks to Block III specifications. In 1994, Hughes Aircraft, having purchased General Dynamics' missile division in 1992, outbid...

The Hughes XH-17 "Flying Crane" was the first helicopter project for the helicopter division of Hughes Aircraft Company. The XH-17, which had a two-bladed...