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The company was founded by J. Northrop in Hawthorne, California in 1939.
It became the third aircraft manufacturer founded by Northrop.
The company gained fame thanks to its “flying wings” projects (of which, despite a number of prototypes that passed flight tests, only the B-2 Spirit bomber was put into serial
production), as well as the creation of the heavy night fighter P-61 Black Widow (1942 )
After losing Lockheed Martin in the fight for the Advanced Tactical Fighter contract and rejecting the application for the
Joint Strike Fighter program, the company was forced to merge with Grumman and form Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Corporation is an American aircraft manufacturing company that existed from 1939 to 1994.