Fletcher Aviation

After relocating to Rosemead, California, later projects involved a family of related designs, including the FU-24 agricultural aircraft of which 296 were produced in New Zealand with many still operating today.

[1] During the Korean War the company purchased Rosemead Airport from Bob and Jack Heasley.

The property extended from Rosemead Boulevard on the west to the Rio Hondo river basin on the south and east.

[5] Purchased by AJ Industries, it changed its name to Flair Aviation in 1960, and produced aircraft fuelling equipment, including drop tanks and hose reels for inflight refuelling.

For the 1954 Carrera Panamericana, Huschke von Hanstein, Press Officer and Racing Director at Porsche, presented Hans Herrmann's Porsche 550 Spyder with a very special decoration with sponsorships that would change, until today, the history of sports sponsorship.

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