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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US4835481031 |
| founding | 1945 |
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Bloomfield , Connecticut United States
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| management | Neal J. Keating ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 5,300 (2013) |
| sales | 1.8 billion US dollars (2013) |
| Branch | Aircraft construction |
| Website | www.kaman.com |
The Kaman Corporation , called Kaman for short in its own language , is an American company based in Bloomfield , Connecticut .
history
The company was founded in 1945 by Charles Huron Kaman (1919–2011) as Kaman Aircraft Corporation and was initially active in the development of helicopters. Further business fields, mainly in the fields of technology and music, were added. Kaman employed over 5,300 people in 2016 and had sales of $ 1.8 billion. Kaman is listed as a stock corporation (symbol: KAMN) on the NASDAQ technology exchange. Neal J. Keating joined the company in September 2007 as chairman. Keating previously worked with companies such as GKN plc and Rockwell Collins .
Group structure
Kaman Aerospace
Kaman Aerospace Corporation is the helicopter division of Kaman. Founded in 1945 by the company's founder at the age of 26 in the garage of his mother's house in West Hartford, he also laid the foundation for today's Kaman Corporation .
In 1951, Kaman launched the K-225, the first helicopter equipped with a gas turbine . Another model from Kaman is the K-Max, which is particularly suitable for transporting loads. Like most of the Kaman models, both types have the special feature of intermeshing rotors , the Flettner double rotor . A tail rotor is thus superfluous without the disadvantages of a coaxial rotor and tandem configuration . The concept can be traced back to Anton Flettner , who worked as chief designer at Kaman from 1947 to 1958. The SH-2 Seasprite is a ship-based helicopter for anti-submarine defense .
Today Kaman is the only manufacturer of a helicopter with a Flettner double rotor.
Types
The following types of helicopters were developed and produced by the company:
- K-125
- K-190
- K-225
- K-240 (HTK-1)
- K-600 (HOK-1 / HUK-1)
- K-600 (H-43A Huskie)
- K-600-3 (HH-43B Huskie II)
- K-600-5 (HH-43F Huskie)
- K-16B V / STOL test aircraft
- K-17 experimental helicopter
- KSA-100 Aercab (Autogyro)
- K-1125 Huskie III (civil helicopter)
- K-20 (UH-2 / SH-2 Seasprite)
- K-1200 K-MAX
Only the K-20 Seasprite and the K-1200 K-MAX are currently being manufactured in modernized versions.
Kaman Industrial Technologies
All parts of the company for the development and manufacture of industrial components are combined in this division. The company manufactures, among other things, the cockpit of the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, parts of the Boeing C-17 and Boeing 777 as well as electric motors and small parts.
Kaman Music
The Kaman Music Corporation , which also founded by Kaman 1966 company Ovation belonged was, until December 2007, the largest retailer of musical instruments and accessories in the US market. For five months, beginning in June 2007, Kaman negotiated the acquisition with Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC). On October 29, 2007, FMIC announced the acquisition and the purchase price of US $ 117 million.
Web links
- Internet presence of Kaman (English)
- Kaman Aerospace
- Kaman Industrial Technologies
- Kaman HH-43F Huskie in the helicopter museum Bückeburg
See also
- Kamow helicopter, waiver of moment compensation at the rear with coaxial rotors rotating in opposite directions.
- List of helicopter types
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kaman 2013 Annual Report - Employees , accessed March 2, 2015
- ↑ Kaman 2013 Annual Report - Selected Financial Data , accessed March 2, 2015
- ^ Kaman Corporation: Aerospace & Distribution Solutions. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .
- ^ Howard Levy: Kaman Helicopters in Airplane Monthly, June 2006, p. 75.
- ^ Kaman Corporation: Aerospace & Distribution Solutions. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Fender acquirer Kaman Music. October 29, 2007, accessed December 4, 2015 .
Coordinates: 41 ° 51 ′ 38.4 " N , 72 ° 42 ′ 29.8" W.