McDonnell Douglas
Industry Aerospace Predecessor Douglas Aircraft Company Founded April 28, 1967 Defunct August 1, 1997 (merger date) Fate Merged with Boeing Successor B oeing Headquarters Berkeley, Missouri, US Products Aircraft, missiles, rockets, space components McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967. Between then and its own merger with Boeing in 1997, it produced a number of well-known commercial and military aircraft such as the DC-10 airliner, the F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter, and F/A-18 Hornet multirole fighter. Background McDonnell Aircraft Corporation and Douglas Aircraft Company… The company was formed from the firms of James Smith McDonnell and Donald Wills Douglas in 1967. Both men were of Scottish ancestry, graduates of MIT an