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Douglas Aircraft Company

American aircraft maker founded by Donald Douglas, with its plant at Santa Monica's airport.

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Place
Santa Monica
Also known as
Douglas Aircraft, Douglas Aircraft Co.
Over time
  1. people who worked here Frank Collbohm (assistant to chief engineer Arthur Raymond, later to Donald Douglas) 1928–1948
  2. includes Project RAND 1946–1948

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founded by

people who worked here

  • Frank Collbohm 1928–1948 assistant to chief engineer Arthur Raymond, later to Donald Douglas Primary record 2

contracts from

  • NASA Dec 1961 S-IVB rocket stage Primary record 3

    The S-IVB was the upper stage of the Saturn IB and Saturn V. Its propellant tank domes and bulkheads were made at the Douglas plant in Santa Monica.

  • United States government Douglas World Cruisers Primary record 1

    Through the U.S. Army Air Service. In 1924 Douglas World Cruisers became the first aircraft to fly around the world.

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located in

  • Santa Monica Primary record 5

    Its plant was at Clover Field, now Santa Monica Airport. Douglas left in 1975 to consolidate its operations in Long Beach.

Timeline 4 dates
  1. 1921 Donald Douglas founded Douglas Aircraft Company
  2. 1928–1948 Frank Collbohm worked at Douglas Aircraft Company
  3. 1946–1948 Project RAND part of Douglas Aircraft Company
  4. Dec 1961 NASA awarded a contract to Douglas Aircraft Company
Proof 5 sources
  1. 3 California companies that helped shape Boeing, Boeing, 22 Apr 2026. Primary record
    In 1921, Donald Douglas Sr. founded Douglas Aircraft Co.
    Douglas won the U.S. Army Air Service contract for an aircraft to attempt the first around-the-world flight using modified DT-2s called Douglas World Cruisers (DWC).
  2. RAND and the Information Evolution: A History in Essays and Vignettes (CP-537), RAND Corporation, 17 Nov 2008. Primary record
    Arthur Raymond (vice president and chief engineer of Douglas Aircraft) and Frank Collbohm (his assistant and later assistant to Donald Douglas)
  3. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles (NASA SP-4206), NASA, 1980. Primary record
    The space agency seemed somewhat sensitive about the S-IVB contract, because there had been no bidders' conference or active competition by other firms. NASA awarded the contract to Douglas for reasons of cost and schedules
  4. Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship (SM-11827): publication page, RAND Corporation. Primary record
    Project RAND — then active within Douglas Aircraft Company’s Engineering Division — released its first report: Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship (SM-11827), May 2, 1946.
  5. Santa Monica Airport (SMO) History, City of Santa Monica. Primary record
    Ultimately, after 50 years at the Airport, Douglas closes down its Santa Monica operation, having manufactured a total of 10,724 aircraft at the Airport plant.
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