Textron Inc. is an American multi-industry industrial conglomerate headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, founded in 1923. Built into a diversified holding company by Royal Little starting in the 1940s, Textron is widely regarded as one of the first companies to adopt the conglomerate model of owning unrelated businesses under one corporate parent. Its present-day holdings include the aircraft brands Cessna and Beechcraft, combined as Textron Aviation, the helicopter and tiltrotor maker Bell, the golf cart and utility vehicle maker E-Z-GO, and Textron Systems, which supplies unmanned aircraft and other defense equipment.
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It was founded by Royal Little in 1923 as the Special Yarns Company.
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Aerospace industry, Aerospace, Automotive industry, Automotive, Defense industry, Defense
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It was founded in 1927 by Clyde Cessna and Victor Roos and was purchased by General Dynamics in 1985, then by Textron in 1992.
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Beech later became a division of Raytheon and then Hawker Beechcraft before a bankruptcy sale turned its assets over to Textron (parent company of Beech's historical cross-town Wichita rival, Cessna Aircraft Company).
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