Kaman Aircraft
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| Traded as | : KAMN S&P 600 Component |
| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | 1945 |
| Founder | Charles Kaman |
| Headquarters | Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States |
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Number of locations
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241 offices, 5 distribution facilities |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Neal J. Keating (Chairman, President & CEO) |
| Products | Metallic and composite Structures, Specialty bearings, fuzes |
| Revenue |
 US$1.59 billion (FY 2012)
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US$92.8 million (FY 2012)
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US$55.0 million (FY 2012)
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| Total assets |
US$1.1 billion (FY 2012)
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| Total equity |
US$42.1 billion (FY 2012)
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Number of employees
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5,007 |
| Divisions | Kaman Industrial Technologies |
| Website | www |
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Footnotes / references |
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Kaman Aerospace /kəˈmɑːn/ is an American aerospace company, with headquarters in Bloomfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1945 by Charles Kaman. During the first ten years the company operated exclusively as a designer and manufacturer of several helicopters that set world records and achieved many aviation firsts.
In 1956, Kaman began to diversify as an aerospace subcontractor of McDonnell Douglas, Grumman and others. In the mid-1960s Kaman diversified outside of the aerospace industry, using the expertise Kaman had gained in composite materials and the end of the need for skilled woodworkers to craft wooden rotor blades. Charles Kaman, a guitarist as well as an aerospace pioneer, worked with his engineers and other musicians to create the round-backed, composite-body Ovation guitar, which led to the eventual creation of Kaman Music (now KMCMusicorp). Kaman Music was an independent distributor of musical instruments and accessories, and a major producer of guitars and guitar parts and accessories.
Charles Kaman founded the company in December 1945 with $2,000 of capital and his invention of the servo-flap controlled rotor.
In the late 1950s, Kaman built the Kaman K-17, an experimental tip jet powered helicopter using a Blackburn Aircraft-built Turbomeca Turmo turbine powering a compressor delivering cold air to the rotor tips.
The HU2K-1, selected by the U.S. Navy as a general purpose naval helicopter, makes its first flight on July 2, 1959. It enters service as the UH-2A Seasprite in 1962.
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