The Detroit Aircraft Corporation was incorporated on July 10, 1922, as the Aircraft Development Corporation in Michigan. The name was changed in 1929 to Detroit Aircraft Corporation. It operated as a holding company until October 27, 1931 when it reverted to receivership.

Organizers

William B. Mayo William Benson Mayo (1860–1944) was chief power engineer for the Ford Motor Company. ...

Charles F. Kettering Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 _ November 25, 1958), a. ...

Subsidiaries

Ryan Aeronautical Company The Ryan Aeronautical Company was founded by T. Claude Ryan in San Diego, California, USA in 1934. ...

Aircraft Development Company

Aviation Tool Company

Grosse Ile Airport, Inc.

Marine Aircraft Corp.

Park's Air College and Affiliated Companies, Inc.

Detroit Aircraft Export Co.

Gliders, Inc.

Eastman Aircraft Corp

Blackburn Aircraft Corp. (90% owner)

Lockheed Aircraft Company Lockheed Corporation (originally Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company) was an American aerospace company originally founded in 1912 which merged with Martin Marietta in 1995 to form Lockheed Martin. ...

Winton Aviation Engine Company (40%)

Great Lakes Aircraft Corp

Aircraft Manufactured

Dirigibles Akron in flight, 2 November 1931 An airship is a buoyant (lighter-than-air) aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ...

DAC-2C Glider

Gull G-1 Glider

TE-1

Lockheed-Detroit YP-24 (1931)

Sirius The Lockheed 8 Sirius was single engine, propeller driven monoplane designed and built by Jack Northrop and Gerard Vultee while they were engineers at Lockheed in 1929, at the request of Charles Lindbergh. ...

Altair The Lockheed Altair was a development of the Lockheed Sirius. ...

Orion The Lockheed Orion Model 9 was a single engine passenger aircraft built in 1931 for commercial airlines. ...

Aircraft proposed, but never manufactured

Y1P-24

Y1A-9