Grumman Aerospace Corp Fire Brigade aircraft badge set

Grumman Aerospace Corp Fire Brigade aircraft badge set (image 1/1)
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This is a very nice pair of vintage badges from the Fire Brigade of the Grumman Aerospace Corporation. One is for a regular firefighter and one is for a Lieutenant. The badges are 1 3/4" in diameter and are in very good condition. On the back they have a one piece spring pin and they are not hallmarked. This would be a great pair of badges for your aviation collection. Following is some information on the company: The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation , later Grumman Aerospace Corporation , was a leading producer of military and civilian aircraft of the 20th century. Founded in 1929 by Leroy Grumman with Jake Swirbul and William Schwendler , its independent existence ended in a 1994 merger with the Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman . 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, NY . Much later, in 1969, the company changed its name to Grumman Aerospace Corporation , and in 1978 it sold the Grumman-American Division to Gulfstream Aerospace. I am selling my twenty read more
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