Lockheed in Burbank
1928-1994 Selected Highlights
By Sherman N. Mullin
(From the January 2010 Senior Bulldogs News)
1928 Rapidly Growing Lockheed Moves to Burbank
1929 Detroit Aircraft buys Lockheed; Allen Lockheed resigns
1930 Lockheed Delivers 60 Vega Aircraft Single Engine, Wood Structure Airplanes
1932 Detroit Aircraft Collapses, Lockheed Declares Bankruptcy
1932 Investors Led By Robert Gross Purchase Lockheed for $40,000
1934 First Flight of Model 10 Electra All Metal Commercial Aircraft - 112 Built
1937 First Flight of Model 14 Super 1938 Great Britain Orders 200 Hudson Twin Engine Patrol Bombers - 2941 Built
1939 First Flight of P-38 Lightning Twin Engine Fighter Aircraft - 9,924 Built
1943 Skunk Works Founded to Prototype XP-80 Jet Fighter
1943 First Flight of Constellation Four Engine Commercial Airliner - 748 Built
1943 Lockheed Employment exceeds 90,000
1944 5,864 Aircraft Delivered During the Year
1945 Last Delivery of 2,750 Boeing Bombers
1945 First Flight of P-2 Neptune Maritime Patrol Aircraft - 1051 Built
1948 First Flight of T-33A T-Bird Trainer Aircraft - 5,691 Built
1954 First Flight of the C-130 Hercules Production in Georgia
1954 First Flight of F-104 Mach 2 Starfighter
1955 First Skunk Works U-2A High Altitude Aircraft Produced
1957 First Flight of Model 188 Electra Turboprop Commercial Air Liner - 170 Built
1959 First Flight of P-3A Orion Maritime Patrol Aircraft
1961 Death of Robert E. Gross, Succeeded by Courtlandt S. Gross
1964 First Skunk Works SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3 Aircraft Produced
1968 L-1011 TriStar Airliner Program Launched: 82 Initial Orders from Airlines
1968 First Flight of P-3C Orion Maritime Patrol Aircraft Digital Avionic System
1972 First Flight of S-3A Viking Carrier ASW Aircraft - 187 Built
1978 Lockheed Air Terminal (Burbank Airport) Sold to Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena
1981 Skunk Works Manufacture of First F-117A Stealth Fighter completed
1981 L-1011 TriStar Airliner Program Terminated - 250 Built
1986 Lockheed Corporate Office Moves to New Calabasas Facility
1986 Lockheed & Northrop Winners of First Round of USAF AFT Competition
1989 Last of 59 F-117A Stealth Fighters Delivered by Skunk works
1990 Decision Made to Shut Down Lockheed Burbank Plant
1991 Skunk Works becomes Lockheed Advanced Development Co. (LADC)
1990 First Flight of YF-22A Prototype Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF)
1991 Lockheed-Boeing-GD F-22 Team Wins USAF ATF Competition
1992 Skunk Works (LADC) Headquarters Moves to Palmdale
1994 Shutdown of Lockheed Burbank Completed