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10k GOLD NAA North American Aviation Service Award Pin
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Sold Date: 03/01/2009
Channel: Online Auction
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Category: Transportation and Vehicles
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10k GOLD North American Aviation Employee Service Award Years Pin. This badge has 5 Diamonds. It is marked on the back cTo 10k . Pin weighs 1.5 grams on my digtal scale. This pinback is in EXCELLENT condition. I have provide a history of North American Aviation below.
WE STRIVE TO PROVIDE 5 STAR SERVICE
HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION
North American Aviation was a major US aircraft manufacturer , responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter , the B-25 Mitchell bomber , the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, and the X-15 rocket plane , as well as Apollo Command and Service Module , the second stage of the Saturn V rocket , the Space Shuttle orbiter and the B-1 Lancer . Through a series of mergers and sales, North American Aviation is now part of Boeing . Clement Melville Keys founded North American on December 6 , 1928 , as a holding company that bought and sold interests in various airlines and aviation-related companies. However, the Air Mail Act of 1934 forced the breakup of such holding companies. The upshot was that North American became a manufacturing company run by James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger (who had been recruited from Douglas Aircraft Company ), although it retained Eastern Air Lines until 1938. General Motors Corporation took a controlling interest in NAA and merged it with its General Aviation division in 1933 , but retaining the name North American Aviation. Kindelberger moved the company's operations to southern California , which allowed flying year-round, and decided to focus on training aircraft, on the theory that it would be easier than trying to compete with established companies. Its first planes were the GA-15 observation plane and the GA-16 trainer, followed by the O-47 and BT-9 . The BC-1 of 1937 was North American's first combat aircraft. The North American P-51 Mustang Like other manufacturers, North American started gearing up for war in 1940, opening factories in Columbus, Ohio ,Dallas, Texas , and Kansas City, Kansas . North American's follow-on to the BT-9 was the T-6 Texan trainer, of which 17,000 were built, making it the most widely used trainer ever. The twin-engine B-25 Mitchell bomber achieved fame in the Doolittle Raid and was used in all theaters. The A-36 Apache was developed as a ground attack aircraft and dive bomber. Originally powered by an Allison engine, a suggestion by the RAF that North American switch to the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine may have been one of the most significant events in WWII aviation, as it produced the P-51 Mustang , considered by many to be the best American fighter of the war. Post-war, North American's employment dropped from a high of 91,000 to 5,000 in 1946. Two years later in 1948, General Motors divested NAA as a public company. Nevertheless, it continued with new designs, including the T-28 Trojan trainer and attack aircraft, the odd-looking P-82 Twin Mustang , B-45 Tornado jet bomber, the FJ Fury fighter, AJ Savage , the revolutionary XB-70 Valkyrie Mach-3 strategic bomber, Shrike Commander, and T-39 Sabreliner business jet. The Columbus, Ohio division of North American Aviation was instrumental in the exclusive development and production of North American's A-5 Vigilante , an advanced high speed bomber that would see significant use as a Naval reconnaissance aircraft during the Vietnam War , the OV-10 Bronco , the first aircraft specifically designed for forward air control (FAC), and counter-insurgency (COIN) duties, and the T-2 Buckeye Naval trainer, which would serve from the late 1950s until 2005 and be flown in training by virtually every Naval pilot for four decades. The Buckeye's name would be an acknowledgement to the state tree of Ohio, as well as the mascot of Ohio State University . The North American XB-70 Valkyrie The F-86 Sabre started out as a redesigned Fury and achieved fame shooting down MiGs in the Korean War . Over 9,000 F-86s were produced. Its successor, t...
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