The Vought V-173 “Flying Pancake” was a groundbreaking experimental aircraft with an all-wing design and propellers on the wingtips. Tested in 1943, its unique look sparked UFO rumors while promising ...

In the end, Dallas-based Vought Aircraft Industries Inc. - once a part of industrial giant LTV Corp. - wasn't big enough. "Scale means a lot in this industry," Vought chief executive Elmer Doty ...

Vought Aircraft, which builds the rear fuselage of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner in a new assembly plant in Charleston, S.C., is slowing the facility almost to a standstill, and its production ...

Vought, which got $35 million, was to create 3,000 jobs by the end of 2009 and maintain 6,000 through 2019. It got a lump sum rather than having to meet certain thresholds.

Boeing’s purchase of the 787 rear fuselage plant in Charleston, S.C. from Texas-based Vought Aircraft Industries will cost $1 billion. In addition to $580 million in cash, Boeing is forgiving ...

But Vought—owned by the Carlyle Group, an $8 billion private equity investment firm with tentacles in telecommunications, defense and aerospace—wasn't in a giving mood. It wanted a contract ...

Company produces components of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner at North Charleston facility ...

Vought Aircraft Industries Inc. (Dallas, Texas) has signed a life-of-program contract extension with Airbus Industrie (Toulouse, France) for various long-range aircraft wing packages. The new contract ...

Boeing announced Friday it will acquire Vought Aircraft Industries’ stake in Global Aeronautica LLC, a fuselage sub- assembly facility for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner jet.

Boeing will acquire a Vought Aircraft Industries facility that builds fuselage components for the 787 aircraft, agreeing to pay $580 million in cash and the release of an undisclosed amount of ...

Company to Pay Vought Aircraft $580 Million, ... Boeing Co. agreed to acquire manufacturing operations from one of its key suppliers on the delayed 787 Dreamliner aircraft at a cost of $1 billion.