Allan Haines Loughead
American aviation pioneer
Died when: 80 years 126 days (964 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Allan Haines Lockheed (né Allan Haines Loughead;January 20, 1889 – May 26, 1969) was an American aviation engineer and business man.He formed the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company along with his brother, Malcolm Loughead, that became Lockheed Corporation.
Loughead legally changed his name to Allan Lockheed, the phonetic spelling of his family name to avoid spelling confusion, in 1934.
He went on to form two other aircraft manufacturing companies in the 1930s.Both were unsuccessful.After World War II, he continued his career as a real estate salesman while occasionally serving as an aviation consultant.
Allan Lockheed kept an informal relationship with the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation until his death in 1969 in Tucson, Arizona.
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