Douglas Aircraft Company

…the period of Boeing’s expansion, Douglas ran into management problems, and while its DC-9 was a spectacular success, it could not match Boeing’s proliferation of designs. Douglas was acquired by McDonnell Aircraft Corporation in 1967, forming McDonnell Douglas Corporation, and the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 was created to meet an estimated…

…1967 through the merger of Douglas Aircraft Company with McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. Douglas Aircraft originated in 1921, when the American aircraft designer Donald Douglas established Douglas Company as a successor to a company he had cofounded the previous year. Douglas Company built its early reputation with the World Cruiser, a…

…founded in 1939, and the Douglas Aircraft Company, established in 1921. The latter’s founder, Donald W. Douglas (1892–1981), first became interested in aviation as a youth while watching the Wright Brothers demonstrate their biplane for the Army in 1909. Later, as a civil engineering assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of…

…and form Northrop Corporation, with Douglas Aircraft Company holding 51 percent of the stock. As part of Douglas, Northrop and his company built the Gamma and Delta series of single-engine, all-metal aircraft.

…aircraft designer who founded the Douglas Aircraft Company.