Cox-Klemin Aircraft Corporation

The company took over an ordnance plant in Baldwin, New York in 1924.

[1][2] Later that year, it partnered with Ernst Heinkel to design and build a mailplane.

[3] In defiance of prohibition, the company christened its new Nighthawk airplane using champagne in 1925.

[6] The case was further delayed after the court could not locate company management.

[7] Grumman would later open its first plant in the shuttered Cox-Klemin factory in 1930.