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1966 Zippo with the town and country hand painted logo.with original box that is in good conditionLIGHTER IS IN PERFECT CONDITION - NEVER BEEN USED WITH PERFECT WICK AND FLINTThe Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation , later Grumman Aerospace Corporation , was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft . Founded on December 6, 1929, by Leroy Grumman with Jake Swirbul and William Schwendler , its independent existence ended in 1994 when it was acquired by Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman .Early history Leroy Grumman and others worked for the Loening Aircraft Engineering Corporation in the 1920s, but when it was bought by Keystone Aircraft Corporation and the operations moved from New York City to Pennsylvania , Grumman and his partners (Edmund Ward Poor, William Schwendler, Jake Swirbul , and Clint Towl) started their own company in an old Cox-Klemin Aircraft Co. factory in Baldwin on Long Island , New York.The company filed as a business on 5 December 1929, and opened its doors on 2 January 1930. Keeping busy by welding aluminum tubing for truck frames, the company eagerly pursued contracts with the US Navy . Grumman designed the first practical floats with a retractable landing gear for the Navy, and this launched Grumman into the aviation market. The first Grumman aircraft was also for the Navy, the Grumman FF-1 , a biplane with retractable landing gear . This was followed by a number of other successful designs. [edit ]Navy contracts During World War II , Grumman became known for its Navy fighter aircraft , F4F Wildcat and F6F Hellcat , and for its torpedo bomber TBF Avenger . Grumman's first jet plane , the F9F Panther , became operational in 1949, but the company's big postwar successes came in the 1960s with the A-6 Intruder and E-2 Hawkeye and in the 1970s with the F-14 Tomcat . Grumman products were prominent in the movie Top Gun and numerous WW-II naval and Marine Corps aviation movies. Grumman Corporation logo, ca. 1976 [edit ]Apollo Lunar Module Grumman was the chief contractor on the Apollo Lunar Module that landed men on the moon. They received the contract on November 7, 1962, and built 13 lunar modules. As the Apollo program neared its end, Grumman was one of the main competitors for the contract to design and build the Space Shuttle , but lost to Rockwell International .In 1969 the company changed its name to Grumman Aerospace Corporation , and in 1978 it sold the Grumman-American Division to Gulfstream Aerospace . The company built the Grumman Long Life Vehicle (LLV), a light transport mail truck designed for and used by the United States Postal Service . The LLV entered service in 1986.Long Island location F-14 Tomcat at Grumman Memorial Park, Calverton, New York For much of the Cold War period Grumman was the largest corporate employer on Long Island.Grumman's products were considered so reliable and ruggedly built that the company was often referred to as the " Grumman Iron Works ". Grumman Historical Marker As the company grew, it moved to Valley Stream, New York , then Farmingdale, New York , finally to Bethpage, New York , with the testing and final assembly at the 6,000-acre (24 km 2) Naval Weapons Station in Calverton, New York , all located on Long Island. At its peak in 1986 it employed 23,000 people on Long Island and occupied 6,000,000 square feet (560,000 m 2) in structures on 105 acres (0.42 km 2) it leased from the U.S. Navy in Bethpage. A Grumman flag flying at Grumman Memorial Park The end of the Cold War, at the beginning of the 1990s, the reduced need for defense spending led to a wave of mergers as aerospace companies shrank in number; in 1994 Northrop bought Grumman for $2.1 billion to form Northrop Grumman , after Northrop topped a $1.9 billion offer from Martin Marietta . The Battle Management and Engagement Systems Division is the only remaining Grumman related business left in the massive Grumman complex in Bethpage. The new company closed almost all ... read more

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