Douglas Aircraft...
Founded July 22, 1921; 100 years ago Founder Donald Douglas Successor McDonnell Douglas Headquarters Santa Monica, California, Long Beach,California Product Aircraft, Missile and Spacecraft Defunct April 28, 1967; 54 years ago Fate Merged with McDonnell Aircraft Corporation The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer based in Southern California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas, when it then operated as a division of McDonnell Douglas. McDonnell Douglas later merged with Boeing in 1997. The company was founded by Donald Wills Douglas Sr. on July 22, 1921 in Santa Monica, California, following dissolution of the Davis-Douglas Company. In 1923, the U.S. Army Air Service was interested in carrying out a mission to turn the Earth for the first time by aircraft, a program cal