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Hughes Aircraft Company
The Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded in 1932 by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California〔Hughes built his H-1 racer in a hangar at the Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale, California. By July, 1941 Hughes Aircraft had relocated its flight line to Culver City, California, in the Playa del Rey wetlands alongside Ballona Creek.〕 as a division of Hughes Tool Company. The company was known for producing, among other products, the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" aircraft, the atmospheric entry probe carried by the Galileo spacecraft, and the AIM-4 Falcon guided missile.〔http://www.centennialofflight.net/essay/Aerospace/Hughes/Aero44.htm〕〔Parker, Dana T. ''Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II'', pp. 49–58, Cypress, CA, 2013.〕
It was acquired by General Motors from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 1985. Hughes Aircraft was put under the umbrella of Hughes Electronics, now known as DirecTV, until GM sold its assets to Raytheon in 1997.〔http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/850245/Hughes-Electronics-Corporation〕〔Parker, Dana T. ''Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II'', p. 49, Cypress, CA, 2013.〕
==History==
During World War II the company designed and built several prototype aircraft at Hughes Airport. These included the famous Hughes H-4 Hercules, better known by the public's nickname for it, the "Spruce Goose", the H-1 racer, D-2 and the XF-11.〔http://aerofiles.com/_h.html〕 However the plant's hangars at Hughes Airport, location of present day Playa Vista in the Westside of Los Angeles, California, were primarily used as a branch plant for the construction of other companies' designs. At the start of the war Hughes Aircraft had only four full-time employees—by the end the number was 80,000.〔Parker, Dana T. ''Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II,'' pp. 49-58, Cypress, CA, 2013.〕
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