Bell Aircraft Corporation
17 aircraft types.
The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production of many important civilian and military helicopters. Bell also developed the Reaction Control System for the Mercury Spacecraft, North American X-15, and Bell Rocket Belt. The company was purchased in 1960 by Textron, and lives on as Bell Textron.
- Founded
- 1935
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Buffalo
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Aircraft types
Bell ARH-70 Arapaho
reconnaissance armed helicopter prototype
First flight 2006
Bell D-188A
proposed tiltjet fighter
Bell H-12
utility helicopter by Bell
Bell UH-1Y Venom
military utility helicopter model by Bell
Bell X-14
airplane
First flight 1957
Bell XH-15
1948 utility helicopter prototype by Bell Helicopter
First flight 1948
Bell XV-3
1955 experimental tiltrotor aircraft model by Bell Helicopter
Bell YAH-63
1975 prototype attack helicopter model by Bell Helicopter
First flight 1975
FM-1 Airacuda
1937 fighter aircraft series by Bell Aircraft
First flight 1937
P-59 Airacomet
1942 fighter aircraft series by Bell
First flight 1942
X-1
1946 experimental aircraft model by Bell
First flight 1946
X-2
1952 research aircraft by Bell
First flight 1955
X-22
1966 experimental aircraft model by Bell
First flight 1966
X-5
experimental aircraft model by Bell
First flight 1951
XP-77
1944 prototype fighter aircraft model by Bell
First flight 1944
XP-83
fighter aircraft prototype model by Bell Aircraft
First flight 1945
XTDL-1 Airacobra
prototype target drone aircraft model by Bell Aircraft