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| Industry | Aerospace |
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| Founded | 1916 (1916) |
| Defunct | 1919 (1919) |
| Fate | Reformed asWright Aeronautical in 1919 |
| Successor | Wright Aeronautical |
| Headquarters | , |
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Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation was a short-lived aircraft manufacturing business venture between theWright Company (afterOrville Wright sold the Wright Company and divested himself from it) andGlenn L. Martin.
Company officials merged their respective organizations, theWright Company and the firstGlenn L. Martin Company, in September 1916.
The company continued and escalated theWright brothers patent war with other aircraft manufacturers, until its resolution—under duress from the government, in 1917, at the start of U.S. involvement inWorld War I—by thecross-licensing agreement developed and managed through theManufacturers Aircraft Association.[3] Martin resigned in 1917, dissolving the Wright-Martin joint enterprise within a year.
The company manufactured a license-built version of theHispano-Suiza 8 under the engineering leadership ofHenry M. Crane. It was used byVought VE-7,Vought VE-8,Boeing NB-2, andLoening M-8.
By 1918, the company had a factory inLong Island City, New York.[4] The company was renamedWright Aeronautical in 1919, and shifted from manufacturing aircraft to manufacturing aircraft engines, developing the pivotalWright Whirlwind engines which changed aviation dramatically.[3]
Meanwhile, in September 1917 Martin founded his secondGlenn L. Martin Company, which remained a major aircraft manufacturer until the 1950s, when it also began developing rockets, missiles, and spacecraft. In 1961, the company merged with theAmerican-Marietta Corporation to become industrialconglomerate (and continued aerospace manufacturer)Martin Marietta; it merged withLockheed in 1995 to become today'sLockheed Martin, one of the United States' three remaining major large aircraft manufacturers (along withBoeing andNorthrop Grumman).[5][6]
| Model name | First flight | Number built | Type |
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| Wright-Martin Model R | 14[7] | Single engine biplane reconnaissance airplane | |
| Wright-Martin Model V | 1[7] | Single engine biplane reconnaissance airplane |
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