KYB Corporation

[3] Among KYB's main products company are shock absorbers, air suspensions, power steering systems, hydraulic pumps, motors, cylinders, and valves.

[6] KYB's American aftermarket distribution of automotive shocks and struts is headquartered in Greenwood, Indiana, with additional KYB manufacturing and distribution facilities in metro Chicago, Southern California, and metro Indianapolis.

Shocks and struts for vehicles are the most popular KYB products distributed in North America.

Source The company between 1939 and 1941 developed several gliders, autogyros and research aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Army.

The development of this aircraft started in 1952 when Shiro Kayaba, the founder of the company, obtained the fuselage of a Cessna 170B and, over the course of two years, turned it into a convertiplane.