Temco Aircraft

The Texas Engineering & Manufacturing Company (TEMCO), also known as Temco Aircraft Corporation, was a U.S.-based manufacturing company located in Dallas, Texas, USA. It is best known for eventually forming part of the conglomerate Ling-Temco-Vought.

Temco was the brainchild of Robert McCulloch, who began his career in aircraft with the Aircraft Division of the William Beardmore and Company in Scotland. McCulloch emigrated to the US in 1927 and worked for a small machining company before joining the Atlantic Aircraft Corporation. The company was "flipped" a number of times during the Great Depression, first becoming Fokker Aircraft of America, then General Aviation, and finally North American Aviation (NAA), where McCulloch rose to become Factory Manager in 1941. That year he took a position at Convair as the General Manager of their factory in Nashville, Tennessee, but he returned to NAA in 1943 and by the end of World War II was the manager of their new plant in the Dallas area at Grand Prairie.

With the end of the war Convair closed their Dallas plant, McCulloch joined with another NAA executive, H. L "Bert" Howard, to form the Texas Engineering and Manufacturing Corporation, later shortened to TEMCO, and reorganized as the TEMCO Aircraft Corporation in 1952. McCulloch was the President and General Manager, while Howard was Executive Vice President and Treasurer. Other members of the initial management team included: Al V. Graff, General Superintendent; Clyde Williams, Secretary & Assistant Treasurer; Joseph H. Baylis, Industrial Relations; Howard Jones, Plant Engineering, Ted H. Beck, Aircraft Engineering; Charles D. Collier, Purchasing; John A. Maxwell, Jr., Manufacturing Control; Robert Yonash, Production Engineering; J. D. McKelvain, Inspection; Otto Witbeck, Shop Superintendent; and O. A. Berthiaume, Shop Superintendent. All of the initial management team were former NAA employees.

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