Interceptor Corporation was a US firm founded in
Norman, Oklahoma
Norman () is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, with a population of 128,097 as of 2021. It is the largest city and the county seat of Cleveland County, and the second-largest city in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, b ...
to develop and market a
turboprop
A turboprop is a turbine engine that drives an aircraft propeller.
A turboprop consists of an intake, reduction gearbox, compressor, combustor, turbine, and a propelling nozzle. Air enters the intake and is compressed by the compressor. ...
-powered version of the
Meyers 200
The Meyers 200 is a single-engined light aircraft produced in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s.
Design
It was the brainchild of Al Meyers and was a development of his Meyers MAC-145 design. The holder of a number of speed records in i ...
, known as the
Interceptor 400. In the early 1970s, the market was not yet ready for a turboprop-powered single-engine aircraft, and the company failed. Rights to all aircraft were eventually acquired by
Prop-Jets Inc in
1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...
.
Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Oklahoma
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