Bell Textron

Bell Textron is an American aerospace manufacturer headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, and a subsidiary of Textron. It makes military rotorcraft in Fort Worth and Amarillo, Texas, and commercial helicopters in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada. The company traces its origin to Bell Aircraft Corporation, founded on 10 July 1935 by Lawrence Dale Bell in Buffalo, New York, whose products included the P-59 Airacomet, the first American jet fighter, and the Bell X-1. Textron purchased Bell Aerospace in 1960, its helicopter division became Bell Helicopter, and the company was rebranded simply as Bell in February 2018. For the space atlas it is recorded as a legacy aerospace and defence manufacturer whose heritage includes the Bell X-1 research aircraft.