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Title: North American Aviation, inc
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1941
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Aerial view of one of the North American Aviation, inc. factories in Kern County. Founded in 1928, this US aviation manufacturer was responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, and the X-15 rocket plane, as well as Apollo Command and Service Module, the second stage of the Saturn V rocket, the Space Shuttle orbiter and the B-1 Lancer. Through a series of sales and mergers, North American Aviation was acquired by Boeing in 1996. Photo dated: March 22, 1941.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00069704
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Aviation-Manufacturers-North American.
CARL0000073553
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110024
Subject: North American Aviation
Airplanes--California--Bakersfield
Aircraft industry--California--Bakersfield
Bakersfield (Calif.)
Bakersfield (Calif.)--Aerial views
Source: Smith, Robyn.

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