Background
Northrop, John Knudsen was born on November 10, 1895 in Newark. Son of Charles Wheeler and Helen C. (Knudsen) Northrop.
Northrop, John Knudsen was born on November 10, 1895 in Newark. Son of Charles Wheeler and Helen C. (Knudsen) Northrop.
Educational public schools, Santa Barbara, California.
; children—Bette (Mistress Paul G. Johansing), John H., Ynez South. (Mistress Robert West. Koch). Married Margaret Bateman, December 23, 1950. Designer Loughead Aircraft Company, Santa Barbara, 1916-1917, 19-20.
Designer, project engineer Douglas Aircraft, Santa Monica, California, 1923-1926.
Company-founder Lockheed Aircraft, Los Angeles, 1927, chief engineer, 1927-1928. Vice president, chief engineer Northrop Aircraft Company division United Aircraft, Burbank, California, 1929-1931, The Northrop Corporation (later El Segundo division, Douglas Aircraft), 1932-1937.
Director Douglas Aircraft, 1934-1937. Company-founder, president, director Northrop Aircraft, Incorporated., Hawthorne, California, 1939-1952.
Engineering consultant, 1953-1981.
Honorary life trustee Occidental College. Trustee Northrop Institute Technology.
Served in Signal corpus, United States army, 1918. Fellow American Institute Aeronautics an Astronautics (president 1948), Royal Aeronautical. Society Designer. Lockheed Vega, 1927.
Married Inez M. Harmer, January 30, 1918 (divorced 1948). Married Margaret Bateman, December 23, 1950. Children: Bette (Mistress Paul G. Johansing), John H., Ynez South. (Mistress Robert West. Koch).