Kaman Corporation


Kaman Corporation is an American aerospace company, with headquarters in Bloomfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1945 by Charles Kaman. During the first ten years the company operated exclusively as a designer and manufacturer of several helicopters that set world records and achieved many aviation firsts.
In 1956, Kaman began to diversify as an aerospace subcontractor of McDonnell Douglas, Grumman, and others. In the mid-1960s Kaman diversified outside of the aerospace industry, using the expertise Kaman had gained in composite materials and the end of the need for skilled woodworkers to craft wooden rotor blades. Charles Kaman, a guitarist as well as an aerospace pioneer, worked with his engineers and other musicians to create the round-backed, composite-body Ovation guitar, which led to the eventual creation of Kaman Music. Kaman Music was an independent distributor of musical instruments and accessories, and a major producer of guitars and guitar parts and accessories.

History

Charles Kaman founded the company in December 1945 with $2,000 of capital and his invention of the servo-flap controlled rotor.
; January 15, 1947
; July 1949
; December 1951
; 1953
; April 1953
; 1954
; March 1954
; September, 1956
; July 1957
; July 2, 1959
; March 1960
; 1962
; January 1964
; 1965
; 1969
; 1971
; May 1973
; July 1976
; January 1991
; February 1993
; August 1994
; November 1998
; August 1999
; January 2000
; January 2001
; October 2002
; June 2008
; January 31, 2011
; November 2015

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