This is a list of aircraft produced or proposed by the
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer. Lockheed was founded in 1926 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995. Its founder, Allan Lockheed, had earlier founded the similarly named but ot ...
from its founding as the Lockheed Aircraft Company in 1926 to its merging with
Martin Marietta
The Martin Marietta Corporation was an American company founded in 1961 through the merger of Glenn L. Martin Company and American-Marietta Corporation. In 1995, it merged with Lockheed Corporation to form Lockheed Martin.
History
Martin Mar ...
to form the
Lockheed Martin Corporation
The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace, arms, defense, information security, and technology corporation with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is ...
in 1995.
Ordered by model number, Lockheed gave most of its aircraft
astronomical
Astronomy () is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and evolution. Objects of interest include planets, moons, stars, nebulae, galax ...
names, from the first
Vega
Vega is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. It has the Bayer designation α Lyrae, which is Latinised to Alpha Lyrae and abbreviated Alpha Lyr or α Lyr. This star is relatively close at only from the Sun, an ...
to the
C-5 Galaxy
The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin. It provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a heavy intercontinental-rang ...
. Aircraft models listed in italics and with higher numbers – ''780'' following 80 and preceding 81, for example – are variants or developments of the base model.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
*
Lockheed Aequare
*
Lockheed AQM-60 Kingfisher
The AQM-60 Kingfisher, originally designated XQ-5, was a target drone version of the USAF's X-7 ramjet test aircraft built by the Lockheed Corporation. The aircraft was designed by Kelly Johnson, who later created the Lockheed A-12 and its rel ...
*
Lockheed MQM-105 Aquila
*
Lockheed D-21
The Lockheed D-21 is an American supersonic reconnaissance drone. The D-21 was initially designed to be launched from the back of an M-21 carrier aircraft, a variant of the Lockheed A-12 aircraft. The drone had maximum speed in excess of at ...
*
Lockheed X-7
The Lockheed X-7 (dubbed the "Flying Stove Pipe") was an American unmanned test bed of the 1950s for ramjet engines and missile guidance technology. It was the basis for the later Lockheed AQM-60 Kingfisher, a system used to test American air de ...
See also
*
Vega Aircraft Corporation
The Vega Aircraft Corporation was a subsidiary of the Lockheed Aircraft Company in Burbank, California responsible for much of its parent company's production in World War II.
History
The company was first formed in August 1937 as the AiRover ...
*
Lockheed Constellation variants
References
Sources
* Breffort, Dominique. Lockheed Constellation: from Excalibur to Starliner Civilian and Military Variants. Paris: Histoire and Collecions, 2006. Print.
US Warplanes – C-69/C-121''Retrieved 10/9/11''
''Retrieved 10/9/11''
*
Boyne, Walter J, ''Beyond the Horizons: The Lockheed Story.'' St. Martin's Press: New York, 1998.
Lockheed-Martin products* Pace, Steve, ''Lockheed Skunk Works.'' Motorbooks International: Osceola, WI, 1992.
* Yenne, Bill, ''Lockheed''. Crescent Books, 1987.
{{Lockheed
Lockheed