Vought

Vought was a long-lived American aerospace manufacturer that existed under several corporate names, beginning as the Lewis and Vought Corporation, founded in 1917 by Chance M. Vought and Birdseye Lewis. It later operated as Chance Vought, Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft and part of Ling-Temco-Vought, and was eventually sold by the Carlyle Group to the Triumph Group in June 2010, where its legacy continues as Triumph Aerostructures - Vought Aircraft Division. Its main place in spaceflight is as prime contractor for the Scout family of small solid-fuel launch vehicles, a program that began in 1959 and ended in 1994 and was meant to lift small scientific satellites into near-Earth orbit cheaply. Orbit Codex lists seventeen Scout and Blue Scout rocket variants built by the company, from the Blue Scout Junior of 1960 to the Scout G-1 of 1979. The company also built naval aircraft, missiles and later aerostructures, and was headquartered in Dallas, Texas.