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Gerard "Jerry" Vultee and Vince Breese started Airplane Development Corporation in early 1932 after American Airlines showed great interest in their six-passenger V-1 design. Soon after, Errett Lobban (E.L.) Cord bought all 500 shares of stock in the company and Airplane Development Corporation became a Cord subsidiary. Due to the Air Mail Act of 1934 , AVCO established the Aviation Manufacturing Corporation (AMC) on November 30 , 1934 through the acquisition of Cord's holdings, including Vultee's Airplane Development Corporation. AMC was liquidated on January 1 , 1936 and Vultee Aircraft Division was formed as an autonomous subsidiary of AVCO . Vultee acquired the assets of the defunct AMC, including Lycoming and Stinson Aircraft Company . Vultee Aircraft was created in November 1939, when Vultee Aircraft Division of AVCO was reorganized as an independent company. Meanwhile, Vultee and Breese had redesigned the V-1 to meet American Airlines' needs and created the eight-passenger V-1A . American purchased 11 V-1As, but the plane ultimately failed due to safety concerns about a single-engine plane and the advent of the twin-engine Douglas DC-2 s and DC-3 s. Vultee redesigned the V-1 into the V-11 attack aircraft for the United States Army Air Corps , but it received few orders. Before he could see Vultee become an independent company, Jerry Vultee and his wife died in a plane crash in the California mountains. Richard Millar succeeded Vultee, and Vultee Aircraft, Inc. began to develop military designs. Its major production programs, however, were the BT-13 Valiant trainer and V-72 Vengeance , serving as the A-31 and A-35. On March 17 , 1943 , Consolidated and Vultee officially merged, creating Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation , popularly known as Convair. The Vultee management resigned. MUSEUM DISPLAYS
::1936 V-1AD Special NC16099, "Lady Peace II", once owned by publisher William Randolph Hearst - only V-1 known to exist. REFERENCES
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