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Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company

LC control no.n 92075573
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Corporate name headingPratt & Whitney Aircraft Company
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Variant(s)Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Company
See alsoPratt & Whitney Company
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Successor: United Aircraft Corporation. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division
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Beginning date1925
Associated countryU.S.
LocatedEast Hartford, Conn.
Field of activityAircraft industry
Special noteOld catalog heading: United Aircraft Corporation. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Division
Found inNUCMC data from University of Connecticut Library for Int'l Assn. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Canel Lodge 700. Records, 1958-1981 (name not given)
LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: United Aircraft Corporation. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Division; in 1938 United Aircraft Corporation took over all outstanding stock of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Company and that of several other companies)
United Aircraft Corp. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft story, c1950 (Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company founded 1925; housed in a single factory area in Hartford, Conn., leased from Pratt & Whitney Company, a prominent machine tool manufacturer, and thus company name was acquired (no corporate association between with two companies); later expanded to East Hartford, Conn., which became headquarters for the organization)