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The aircraft was originally designed by Volaircraft, first flying in 1960.The firm marketed the original three-seat version as the Volaire 1035 and a four-seat version with a more powerful engine as the Volaire 1050 before North American Rockwell purchased all rights to the design on July 12, 1965, for production by its Aero Commander division.
Ag Commander was a brand name used by Aero Commander for their line of agricultural aircraft. Two unrelated aircraft were marketed under this name: the CallAir A-9 , sold as the Ag Commander A-9 and B-9 , and the Ayres Thrush (aka the Snow S-2 ), sold as the Ag Commander S-2 .
1988: Ford Aerospace San Jose CA location working on NATO Airbase SATCOM (NABS) Skynet control facilities. 1990: Ford Aerospace sold to Loral Corporation. The sale did not include the lease of land for the Newport Beach plant, which the buyer was required to vacate within five years. [4]
The Commander 685 was a piston-engined variant of the turboprop-powered Rockwell Commander 690, with two wing-mounted 435 hp Continental GTSIO-520K piston engines in tractor configuration with three-bladed Hartzell feathering propellers. It is a high-wing cantilever monoplane with an enclosed nine-seat cabin and a retractable nose-wheel landing ...
The Ayres Thrush, formerly the Snow S-2, [1] Aero Commander Ag Commander, and Rockwell Thrush Commander, is an American agricultural aircraft produced by Ayres Corporation and more recently by Thrush Aircraft. It is one of the most successful and long-lived agricultural application aircraft types in the world, with almost 2,000 sold since the ...
Aero Commander 100; Rockwell Commander 112; Meyers 200; Aero Commander 500 family; Rockwell 685; A. Aero Commander Ag Commander; Ayres Thrush; C. CallAir A-9; I. IAI ...
The IAI Westwind is a business jet initially produced by Aero Commander as the 1121 Jet Commander. Powered by twin GE CJ610 turbojets, it first flew on January 27, 1963, and received its type certification on November 4, 1964, before the first delivery.
The Aero Commander 500 family is a series of light-twin piston-engined and turboprop aircraft originally built by the Aero Design and Engineering Company in the late 1940s, renamed the Aero Commander company in 1950, and later a division of Rockwell International in 1965. Final production occurred under the Gulfstream Aerospace name.