North American Aviation's Dallas Plant

valdez25 · **Posted:** Tue May 13, 2008 1:01 am

Does anyone know of links to find the history of the NAA plant in Dallas (Grand Prairie) during WWII? Here's the only information I could find. http://www.uaw848.org/archives.htm

Second Air Force · **Posted:** Tue May 13, 2008 8:38 am

valdez45,

Last spring I was at Midland when one of the WWII-era company photographers from the North American plant visited. He had a huge scrapbook of photos he and others in his department took documenting production and day-to-day life at the factory. B-24s, T6s, P-51s etc. were shown, as well as shots of smaller shops and assembly line areas. I don't know if he could be easily tracked down, and I didn't get his name. I know this doesn't help as far as getting the information in your hands, but I do know that it is out there. You might try the Grand Prairie municipal offices or their historical society if they have one, I've had some luck with other research projects by using that method.

Scott

Ztex · **Posted:** Tue May 13, 2008 10:22 am

Howdy!

Scott...I would have loved to see his stuff...

My dad worked at NAA Dallas during the war.
I too have been on the search for stuff about the plant.
I have some items that he tucked away form his time there.

I have found little tidbits of info here and there....
http://www.voughtaircraft.com/heritage/NWIRP/historical/intro.pdf

http://www.voughtaircraft.com/heritage/NWIRP/register/Facility1.pdf

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/GG/hdg3.html

Some of my stuff is posted here...
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8076&highlight=naa+dallas

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10774&highlight=naa+dallas

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11187&highlight=naa+dallas

pilot06 · **Posted:** Tue May 13, 2008 2:18 pm

Scott,

I would to see those photos. Is there any way to track this guy down?

Patrick

flyboy1944 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 13, 2013 1:46 am **Posts:** 1

I would love to get that information as well. My Dad was foreman of the wing division in WWII and built the wings for the P-51 and B-25. I have been trying to find any information about the plant and work done there. Please let me know if anyone knows anything.
Bill

airnutz · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2013 7:10 am

Second Air Force wrote:

valdez45,

Last spring I was at Midland when one of the WWII-era company photographers from the North American plant visited. He had a huge scrapbook of photos he and others in his department took documenting production and day-to-day life at the factory. B-24s, T6s, P-51s etc. were shown, as well as shots of smaller shops and assembly line areas. I don't know if he could be easily tracked down, and I didn't get his name. I know this doesn't help as far as getting the information in your hands, but I do know that it is out there. You might try the Grand Prairie municipal offices or their historical society if they have one, I've had some luck with other research projects by using that method.

Scott

Scott...You might try looking up a fellow named Dick Atkins, he's one of the Vought historians and has been around a loooooong time. Mebbee he can help?

EDIT
http://www.voughtaircraft.com/heritage/html/honor.html

snj-5 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2013 12:16 pm

Rockwell destroyed much of the NAA Dallas Archives, so pretty much the only thing we
have left (from NAA Dallas) is what is out in private hands....

Bela P. Havasreti

Stoney · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2013 6:42 pm

^
they did the same in LA, lucky I get a list of all the NAA 88- numbers

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

There was some remaining Rockwell stuff that funneled through Long Beach on its way to the historical folks in Seattle, to include the P-51 data I believe. I got a couple of wartime Jane's books they were throwing out. Some friends and I divided the whole late '30s - early '40s collection between us.

MarkN · **Joined:** Sun Jul 15, 2012 11:37 pm **Posts:** 15

Hi

Wondered if there was anything about Dallas Plant B or the B-24 production in your collection?

thanks

Mark

jdvoss · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:48 pm

As a point of interest the NAA plant at Dallas received a contract to construct 692 Fairchild C-82 Packets. Three (3) were completed with the balance cancelled upon V-J Day. They were designated as the C-82N. Presumabley they were constructed in the floor space voided by the completion of the B-24 production run.

PlanesOfThePast · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2013 7:48 pm

I have interests in the Dallas NAA plant as well. Been working on expanding my limited knowledge base on the B-24, including production plants where it was assembled.

My efforts thus far are posted at ... http://www.planesofthepast.com/b24-liberator.htm

Looking forward to more replies on this subject.

T-28mike · **Posted:** Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:01 pm

A correction (or two) for your site. The second picture is listed as B-24 assembly line at Willow Run. It is actually at the San Diego plant (San Diego Plant 2). The pic captioned simply as Consolidated B-24 assembly line is at the Fort Worth plant.

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