Editing Convair (section)

== Timeline ==
<ref>[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Textron-Lycoming-Turbine-Engine-Company-History.html Textron Lycoming Turbine Engine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101003081015/http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Textron-Lycoming-Turbine-Engine-Company-History.html |date=3 October 2010 }}, a company history of AVCO and Lycoming/Textron</ref><ref>[http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/lehman/chrono.html?company=avco_financial_services_inc Avco Financial Services, Inc.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100629193213/http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/lehman/chrono.html?company=avco_financial_services_inc |date=29 June 2010 }} from the Lehman Brothers Collection – Twentieth Century Business Archives</ref><ref>[http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/Consolidated_Vultee/Aero33.htm Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606012521/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/Consolidated_Vultee/Aero33.htm|date=June 6, 2011}}, U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission</ref><ref>[http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/generaldynamics/Aero35.htm General Dynamics Corporation] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081112045623/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/generaldynamics/Aero35.htm|date=November 12, 2008}}, U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission</ref><ref>[http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/c/central/central.htm Central Manufacturing Co. of Connersville, Indiana] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725114537/http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/c/central/central.htm |date=25 July 2009 }}, a history of Cord, AVCO, and others</ref>

* 1923 '''Consolidated Aircraft Corporation''' formed by [[Reuben H. Fleet|Major Reuben H. Fleet]]
* 1934 [[AVCO]] acquired the '''Airplane Development Corporation''' from Cord and formed the '''Aviation Manufacturing Corporation''' (AMC)
* 1936 AMC liquidated to form the '''Vultee Aircraft Division''', an autonomous subsidiary of AVCO
* 1939 Vultee Aircraft Division of AVCO reorganized as an independent company known as '''Vultee Aircraft, Inc.'''
* 1941 Consolidated Aircraft Corporation sold to AVCO
* 1943 '''Consolidated-Vultee''', formed by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft; still controlled by AVCO
* 1947 Convair acquired by the '''[[Atlas Corporation]]'''
* 1953-1954 Convair acquired by '''[[General Dynamics]]'''<ref name=atsbbos>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rGMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7213,4641481|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|title=Atlas to sell big block of Convair stock|agency=United Press|date=March 31, 1953|page=17|access-date=9 February 2016|archive-date=11 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311233108/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rGMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7213,4641481|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=gdvdam>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aJ80AAAAIBAJ&sjid=pnIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6115,305088|newspaper=The Day|location=New London, Connecticut|title=General Dynamics, Vultee Directors Approve Merger|date=March 2, 1954|page=15|access-date=9 February 2016|archive-date=11 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311233111/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aJ80AAAAIBAJ&sjid=pnIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6115,305088|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1985 General Dynamics formed their "Space Systems Division" from the Convair Space Program
* 1992 Missile Systems Division sold to [[Hughes Aircraft Company]]
* 1993 The Fort Worth facility sold to [[Lockheed Corporation]] (now [[Lockheed Martin]])
* 1994 Space Systems Division sold to [[Martin Marietta]] (now [[Lockheed Martin]])
* 1994 Convair Aircraft Structures unit sold to [[McDonnell Douglas]] (now [[Boeing]])