Gulfstream Aerospace

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Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation is located in Savannah, Georgia, United States, and has been a unit of General Dynamics since 2001.

Contents 1 History 2 Former aircraft types 3 Current aircraft types 4 External links

History

The first aircraft named Gulfstream was the twin-turboprop Grumman Gulfstream I. The success of this program lead to development of the bizjet Grumman Gulfstream II. In 1978, Grumman sold Gulfstream to Allen E. Paulson's American Jet Industries, renaming the company Grumman American. The purchase of Rockwell's Aero Commander program completed the formation of the new Gulfstream Aerospace. In 1985, Chrysler acquired Gulfstream with Paulson remaining in charge but a few years later Paulson teamed up with Ted Forstmann and his associates to buy the company back.

In 1999, General Dynamics acquired Gulfstream from Forstmann Little and, in 2001, added Galaxy Aerospace from Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI). Their production lines, located in Israel, are used to co-produce the G100/G150 and G200 with IAI. The G100/G150 and G200 were formerly sold independently by Galaxy.

Former aircraft types

• Grumman Gulfstream I, a twin turboprop business aircraft
• Grumman Gulfstream II, this and all further Gulfstreams were twin engine business jets
• Gulfstream III
• Gulfstream IV
• Gulfstream V
• Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21, a supersonic business jet design.
• Gulfstream American AA-1C Lynx and T-Cat
• Gulfstream American AA-5A Cheetah
• Gulfstream American AA-5B Tiger
• Gulfstream American GA-7 Cougar

Current aircraft types

Gulfstream currently (2004) produces eight models of private aircraft:

• G100/G150 is based on the IAI Astra SPX.
• G200 is based on the IAI Galaxy.
• G300/G350, based upon the Gulfstream IV-SP.
• G400/G450, based upon the Gulfstream IV-X.
• G500/G550, based upon the Gulfstream V-SP (which was introduced in 2002).

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