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Sherman Mills Fairchild was an American businessman and inventor whose career spanned the middle of the 20th century. His vast business holdings may never be fully known, but a former Fairchild employee, Theron Rinehart, rescued from destruction an incomplete list of companies that Fairchild owned. The following is a list of companies that Sherman Fairchild established throughout his long business career;[1]
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1925 (name changed from S.M. Fairchild Flying Corporation)
1925 Fairchild Aviation Corporation (holding company for Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation, Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc., Fairchild Flying Company, Inc., Fairchild Caminez Engine Corporation, Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation and Fairchild Aerial Surveys (of Canada) Ltd.
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1927 (reorganization and refinancing of the following subsidiaries and minority holdings; Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation, Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc., Fairchild Flying Company, Inc., Fairchild Caminez Engine Corporation, Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation, Fairchild Aviation, Ltd., Compañía Mexicana de Aviación, S.A. (20% stock) and International Aerial Engineering Company (20% stock)
1964 Fairchild-Hiller Corporation (name change from Fairchild Stratos Corporation; division and subsidiaries; Aircraft Missiles Division, Aircraft Services Division, Electronics Systems Division, Inc., Fairchild Aviation (Holland) N.V. and Fairchild Arms International, Inc.
1965 Republic Aviation Company
1965 Republic Aviation Division
1965 Electronic and Information Division (formed by combining Electronic Systems Division, Data Systems Engineering and similar disciplines from Republic Aviation Company
1966
1966 Fairchild-Hiller-FRG Corporation
1966 Aircraft Division formed by combining Space Systems Division and Electronic and Information Systems Division
1966 Industrial Products Division forms from the Industrial Products branch of Stratos Division
1967 S.J. Industries, Inc.
1967
1967
1967 EWR-Fairchild International
1968 Fairchild Marketing Company
1968 FAIRMICCO
1969 Fairchild-Germantown Development Company, Inc.
1970 Fairchild Aviation (Asia) Ltd.
1971 Name change from Fairchild Hiller Corporation, division and subsidiaries: Fairchild Aircraft Marketing Company, Fairchild Aircraft Services Division, Fairchild Republic Division, Fairchild Space and Electronics Division, Fairchild Stratos Division, Burns Aero Seat Company, Inc., Fairchild Arms International, Ltd., Fairchild Aviation (Asia) Ltd., Fairchild Aviation (Holland) N.V., Fairchild-Germantown Development Company, Inc. and S.J. Industries, Inc