Fairchild Controls Corp history

In 1922 he perfected a bomb sight device, which he sold to the United States government for $50,000, and used the payment to establish the Seversky Aero Corporation.

Gordon Moore, in full Gordon E. Moore, (born January 3, 1929, San Francisco, California, United States), American engineer and cofounder, with Robert Noyce, of Intel Corporation.

Seversky's was one of hundreds of aeronautics firms that were forced into bankruptcy in 1931.

In 1935 Seversky Aircraft was forced to terminate its manufacturing agreement with Kirkham Engineering when the Colombian government failed to pay an installment.

The original Fairchild company was established in 1936 as a holding company for the aircraft interests of Fairchild Camera founder Sherman Fairchild.

But by 1939 Paul Moore had enough of Seversky.

By 1944, Republic was turning out 20 P-47s a day.

Fitted with an Allison J-35 engine, the F-84 first flew in 1946.

The Thunderchief matched or outperformed all competing designs during the mid-1950s, including the North American F-86 and Lockheed F-104.

In 1956 Moore returned to California to work at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, which William Shockley, one of the Nobel Prize-winning inventors of the transistor, had just opened in Palo Alto.

In 1957 Fairchild was looking to enter the transistor business, and the “traitorous eight”—as Shockley labeled the defectors—presented themselves as a prepackaged solution.

Although Fairchild filed a patent application in 1959 for this planar process, it soon cross-licensed integrated circuit patents with coinventor Texas Instruments while the companies battled in the courts to a split decision 10 years later.

In 1961 Fairchild brought the integrated circuit (IC) to market at a price of $120 per chip.

Rather than spend years building a capable staff, Uhl began an acquisition campaign that included the Hiller Aircraft Company in 1964.

In 1965, for a special issue of the journal Electronics, Moore was asked to predict developments over the next decade.

By 1966, Fairchild-Hiller's finances had become strong enough that it was able to bid for the acquisition of another distressed airplane builder, the Douglas Aircraft Co.

By 1969 the Apollo program alone had purchased one million silicon chips, a significant fraction of them manufactured by Fairchild.

By 1970 Swearingen had so radically altered the original Beech design that he decided to build the craft from scratch.

In 1972 Fairchild Republic won a competition to produce a new ground attack aircraft, the A-10 Thunderbolt.

In 1975, as the rate of growth began to slow, Moore revised his time frame to two years.

In 1979 Schlumberger Limited, a French company primarily known for supplying oil field services and equipment, acquired the company and its historic name.

After the United States government quashed the sale, National Semiconductor purchased Fairchild in 1987 but also was unable to turn it into a profitable business.

Republic's Farmingdale site was sold to a shopping mall developer in 1988, and many of its employees moved to Grumman.