Globe Aircraft Company Factory Airfield water tower, Saginaw, TX
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N 32° 51.632 W 097° 20.698
14S E 654857 N 3637039
In 1933, John Kennedy (former owner of Globe Laboratories) purchased several hundred acres near the intersection of Blue Mound & Watauga Roads. In the next few years Kennedy built facilities on his property for the his intended plans to conduct aircraft manufacturing.
Waymark Code: WM5MMQ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/22/2009
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On April 9, 1940, John Kennedy established the Bennett Aircraft Corporation of Fort Worth,along with oilman Frank Bennett & several other investors,with facilities at Blue Mound Road.
Their first product was the Bennett BTC-1 twin-engine aircraft,of which a single prototype had been previously been constructed in California by Frank Bennett. Their marketing of the aircraft became focused on the military, but it evidently did not see production.
The Bennett Aircraft Company reorganized as the Globe Aircraft Corporation in 1942.
During WW2, the Globe Aircraft Company conducted licensed production
of the Beech AT-10 advanced trainer aircraft at the Saginaw plant.
The Globe plant was declared excess by the Army in 1945,and sold as surplus in 1946 (presumably back to the Globe company).
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