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Bell Aircraft History
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The company was founded on January 10, 1935 under the name Bell Aircraft Corporation.
Initially, the company was engaged in the development and production of fighter aircraft.
The company's most famous aircraft manufactured during WWII were the successful P-39 Airacobra and P-63 Kingcobra fighters, as well as (at the end of the war) the first American jet aircraft P-59 Airacomet.
Simultaneously with the development of fighter aircraft, from the beginning of the 1940s, the company began to develop a helicopter theme.
The beginning of commercial success in the production of helicopters was associated with the arrival of the talented designer Arthur Young in the company.
Under his leadership, the first helicopter of the company was created - the Bell 30 model (the first flight on December 29, 1942); subsequently, based on it, an extremely successful (both in technical and commercial sense) Bell 47 helicopter was developed.
In 1960, Bell Aerospace was acquired by Textron. The helicopter division of Bell Aerospace (Bell Aircraft Corporation) was renamed the Bell Helicopter Company.
In 1976, the company became known as Bell Helicopter Textron, becoming part of the Textron conglomerate.
The company's most famous product is the Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter.