Editing Lockheed Corporation (section)

===Timeline===
*1912: The [[Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company]] established.
*1916: Company renamed Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company.
*1926: Lockheed Aircraft Company formed.
*1929: Lockheed becomes a division of Detroit Aircraft.
*1932: [[Robert E. Gross (businessman)|Robert and Courtland Gross]] take control of the company after the bankruptcy of Detroit Aircraft. The company is renamed Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, reflecting the company's reorganization under a board of directors.
*1941: Lockheed P-38 Lightning is introduced, one of the most successful fighters of [[World War II]], and the namesake to the [[Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II]]
*1943: Lockheed's Skunk Works founded in Burbank, California.
*1954: First flight of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules.
*1954: Maiden flight of the Lockheed U-2.
*1961: Grand Central Rocket Company acquired as [[Lockheed Propulsion Company]].
*1962: First flight of the [[Lockheed A-12|A-12 Blackbird]].
*1964: First flight of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.
*1970  First flight of the [[L-1011|L-1011 TriStar]].
*1972   [[ProQuest_Dialog|DIALOG Information Retrieval Service]] announced as commercial online service (spun out as wholly owned subsidiary in 1982.)
*1976: The [[Lockheed bribery scandals]].
*1977: Company renamed Lockheed Corporation, to reflect non-aviation activities of the company.
*1978: The company's [[Hollywood-Burbank Airport]] is sold to its nearby cities and becomes [[Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport]] (later renamed [[Bob Hope Airport]] in 2003).<ref>[http://www.burbankca.gov/index.aspx?page=43 History of Burbank, The Changing Face of the City] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111227031352/http://www.burbankca.gov/index.aspx?page=43 |date=December 27, 2011 }}, City of Burbank Website, {{retrieved|date=April,2012}}</ref>
*1981: First flight of the [[F-117|F-117 Nighthawk]].
*1985: Acquires Metier Management Systems.
*1986: Acquires [[Sanders Associates]] electronics of [[Nashua, New Hampshire|Nashua]], New Hampshire.
*1991: Lockheed, [[General Dynamics]] and [[Boeing]] begin development of the [[F-22 Raptor]].
*1992: All aerospace-related activities end at the Burbank facility.
*1993: Acquires [[General Dynamics]]' [[Convair|Fort Worth aircraft division]], builder of the [[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16 Fighting Falcon]].
*1995: Lockheed Corporation merges with [[Martin Marietta]] to form [[Lockheed Martin]].