The McCulloch Aircraft Corporation was the aircraft division of the McCulloch Motors Corporation. McCulloch acquired Helicopter Engineering Research Corp

Jovair

Jovair was established by Drago Jovanovich at Philadelphia in 1946 to produce helicopters. The firm was taken over by McCulloch Aircraft Corporation, along with its two most promising designs, the J-2 and the JOV-3.-References:...

 in 1951. It manufactured two innovative helicopter designs — the tandem-rotor MC-4 and the J-2

McCulloch J-2

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 autogyro.

Rights to the twin-rotor MC-4 was sold back to the original designer, Drago Jovanovich

Drago Jovanovich

Drago K. Jovanovich and F. Kozloski founded the Helicopter Engineering Research Corporation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1946 the predecessor of Jovair...

, in 1957. Rights to the J-2 autogyro were sold to Aero Resources

Aero Resources

Aero Resources was established at Gardena, California in 1970 to manufacture Drago Jovanovich's J-2 autogyro. It offered an improved version of the aircraft as the Super J-2 , but was unable to obtain enough orders to make production viable....

 (Gardena, California

Gardena, California

Gardena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 58,829 at the 2010 census, up from 57,746 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Gardena is located at ....

) in 1974

1974 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1974:-January:* January 26 – The Turkish Airlines Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship Van stalls shortly after after takeoff from Izmir Cumaovası Airport in Izmir, Turkey, crashes, and catches fire, killing 66 of the 73 people on board.* January 30...

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