In 1920Leroy Grumman worked for the Loening Aeronautical Engineering. When it was purchased by Keystone Aircraft (In) and the operations moved from New York to PennsylvaniaLeroy Grumman and his colleagues (Edmund Ward Poor, William Schwendler, Jake Swirbull and Clint Towl Launched their own company in a garage in the city Baldwin County (Naussau) = in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York on Long Island.

The company was legally declared the 5 December 1929 and opened its doors on 2 January 1930. Their first products were floats for Seaplane ofNavy. The first aircraft they produced was also designed for the Navy: it was the Grumman FFA biplane with retractable landing gear. Other models followed him with equal success. The company taking the scale, she moved to Valley Stram (New York), Then Farmingdale (New York) and finally, she moved to Bethpage (New York).

During WWII, Grumman became famous for its Hunters: The F4F Wildcat The Grumman Airplanes F6F Hellcat and his torpedo bomberThe TBF Avenger. The first jet aircraft was the Grumman F9F Panther which became operational in 1949But his biggest success after the war was, in 1960 the Grumman A-6 Intruder and finally, in the 1970The F-14 Tomcat.

Grumman was also the project leader of the lunar module project Apollo which allowed the first men to go to the moon. They received the contract on 7 November 1962 built and finally 13 lunar module. While the Apollo program was nearing its end, Grumman was one of the contenders for the contract to build space shuttleBut it was Rockwell which received the contract.

In 1969The company took the name Grumman Aerospace Corporation and 1978She sold the Grumman-American Division at Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation (In). The end of the cold war to 1991 and its impact on national defense needs led to a wave of mergers. In 1994, Grumman merged with Northrop become Northrop Grumman.

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