![]() ![]() Grumman designed the first practical floats with a retractable landing gear for the Navy, and this launched Grumman into the aviation market. ![]() While maintaining the business by welding aluminum tubing for truck frames, the company eagerly pursued contracts with the US Navy. The company registered as a business on December 6, 1929, and officially opened on January 2, 1930. factory in Baldwin on Long Island, New York. Grumman and three other ex-Loening Aircraft employees, ( Edmund Ward Poor, William Schwendler, and Jake Swirbul) started their own company in an old Cox-Klemin Aircraft Co. In 1929, Keystone Aircraft Corporation bought Loening Aircraft and moved its operations from New York City to Bristol, Pennsylvania. ![]() Leroy Grumman worked for the Loening Aircraft Engineering Corporation beginning in 1920. ![]()
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