__NOTOC__ The McCulloch Aircraft Corporation was the aircraft division of the

McCulloch Motors Corporation McCulloch Motors Corporation is an American manufacturer of chainsaws and other outdoor power tools. The company was founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1943 by Robert Paxton McCulloch as a manufacturer of small two-stroke gasoline engines and ...

. McCulloch acquired Helicopter Engineering Research Corp in 1951. It manufactured two innovative helicopter designs – the tandem-rotor MC-4 and the J-2 autogyro. Rights to the twin-rotor MC-4 was sold back to the original designer,

Drago Jovanovich Dragoljub Kosta Jovanovich (January 24, 1916 – November 12, 1983), also known under his pen name D. K. or "Gish" Jovanovich, was a Serbian-American helicopter designer, inventor, and pioneer in autogyro technology. Born in the Kingdom of Yugosla ...

, in 1957. Rights to the J-2 autogyro were sold to Aero Resources (

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) in

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References

* * https://web.archive.org/web/20090108062245/http://www.shanaberger.com/mcculloch.htm

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{{McCulloch aircraft Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States Defunct helicopter manufacturers of the United States