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Particularly well-known products included the Hughes H-4 Hercules ''Spruce Goose'' aircraft, the atmospheric entry probe carried by the Galileo spacecraft, and the AIM-4 Falcon guided missile. | Particularly well-known products included the Hughes H-4 Hercules ''Spruce Goose'' aircraft, the atmospheric entry probe carried by the Galileo spacecraft, and the AIM-4 Falcon guided missile. | ||
1960 Hughes Aircraft was one of the smaller makers of semiconductors in Britain<ref>The Times Dec. 24, 1960</ref> | |||
1985 Hughes Aircraft was acquired by General Motors from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 1985 Hughes Aircraft was acquired by General Motors from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute | ||
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Also known as Hughes Aircraft Corporation.
1932 The company was founded by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California as a division of Hughes Tool Company.
1953 Howard Hughes donated Hughes Aircraft to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Particularly well-known products included the Hughes H-4 Hercules Spruce Goose aircraft, the atmospheric entry probe carried by the Galileo spacecraft, and the AIM-4 Falcon guided missile.
1960 Hughes Aircraft was one of the smaller makers of semiconductors in Britain[1]
1985 Hughes Aircraft was acquired by General Motors from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
1985 General Motors merged Hughes Aircraft with its Delco Electronics unit to form Hughes Electronics Corporation.
1988 Hughes Aircraft bought Redifon and renamed it Hughes Rediffusion Simulation (HRSL).
1997 General Motors sold the Hughes Aircraft business, the defence part of its Hughes Electronics business, to Raytheon[2]
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- [2] Wikipedia