Editing Convair (section)

=== Dissolution ===
General Dynamics announced the sale of the Missile Systems Division segment of Convair to [[Hughes Aircraft Company]] in May 1992<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-12-mn-1628-story.html |title=Archives |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=12 May 1992 |access-date=16 April 2020 |archive-date=11 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211171845/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-12/news/mn-1628_1_general-dynamics-pomona |url-status=live }}</ref> and the Space Systems Division segment to [[Martin Marietta]] in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com/uniontrib/20070611/news_1n11atlas.html |title=The San Diego Union-Tribune - San Diego, California & National News |access-date=3 July 2018 |archive-date=3 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703220843/http://legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com/uniontrib/20070611/news_1n11atlas.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In July 1994, General Dynamics and [[McDonnell Douglas]] mutually agreed to terminate Convair's contract to provide fuselages for the 300-seat [[McDonnell Douglas MD-11|MD-11]] airliner.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-07-02-fi-11075-story.html |title=Archives |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=2 July 1994 |access-date=16 April 2020 |archive-date=19 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119040344/http://articles.latimes.com/1994-07-02/business/fi-11075_1_san-diego |url-status=live }}</ref> Manufacturing responsibility was to be transferred to McDonnell Douglas, which said it would not preserve the operation in San Diego. General Dynamics had tried for two years to sell the Aircraft structures segment of Convair unit, but the effort ultimately failed.

The termination of the contract meant the end of the Convair Division and of General Dynamics' presence in San Diego, as well as the city's long aircraft-building tradition. The defense contractor once employed 18,000 people there, but after selling its divisions, that number is now zero. General Dynamics closed its complex in [[Kearny Mesa, San Diego|Kearny Mesa]], demolishing the facility between 1994 and 1996. Homes and offices now occupy the site. The [[San Diego International Airport|Lindbergh Field]] plant that produced B-24s during [[World War II]] was also demolished and the consolidated rental car facility now occupies this space.

The [[Fort Worth, Texas]] factory, constructed to build the B-24s, and its associated engineering locations and laboratories — all previously used to make hundreds of Consolidated B-24s, [[General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark]] fighter-bombers and [[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon]]s, along with dozens of smaller projects — were sold, along with all intellectual property and the legal rights to the products designed and built within, to the [[Lockheed Corporation]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1992/12/10/lockheed-to-acquire-jet-division-general-dynamics-selling-f-16-program/ |title=Lockheed Buys General Dynamics &#124; Lockheed to acquire jet division General Dynamics selling F-16 program - tribunedigital-baltimoresun |date=10 December 1992 |access-date=3 July 2018 |archive-date=3 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703220941/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1992-12-10/business/1992345131_1_military-aircraft-general-dynamics-aircraft-division |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1996, General Dynamics deactivated all of the remaining legal entities of the Convair Division.