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Boeing - known at that time as the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation - purchased Stearman Aircraft Company . The Boeing Wichita site produced some of the most important aircraft in history , including the B-29 Superfortress bomber , the B-47 Stratojet and the B-52 Stratofortress . In 1996 , Boeing purchased Rockwell International ’ s operations in Oklahoma , which produced components for the 737 , the International Space Station , the Joint Strike Fighter and the Nimrod MRA4 .
On the other side of the Atlantic , Spirit ’ s history begins in the 1910s . In 1908 , Short Brothers was registered as an aircraft manufacturer and within a year had secured the UK manufacturing rights to build six
‘ Wright Flyers ’. In 1989 , Short Brothers PLC was acquired by the Canadian headquartered corporation , Bombardier . The Belfast facility was responsible for design , manufacture and support of aerostructures for commercial and business aircraft . In the 2000s Bombardier opened an MRO facility in Dallas , Texas and added manufacturing capacity in Casablanca , Morocco .
In 1935 , aviation pioneer , David McIntyre , established Scottish Aviation Ltd in Scotland ’ s Ayrshire countryside . The facility was an essential producer of aircraft during WWII . In the 1970s , the Scottish Aviation Ltd facility at Prestwick later became BAE Systems Aerostructures .
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