North American Aviation (NAA)
was a major American aerospace manufacturer that designed and
built several notable aircraft and spacecraft. Its products included:
the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell
bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, the
XB-70, the B-1 Lancer, the Apollo command and service module,
the second stage of the Saturn V rocket, and the Space Shuttle
orbiter.
Through a series of mergers
and sales, North American Aviation became part of North American
Rockwell, which later became Rockwell International, and is now
part of Boeing. |