History
The plant traces its history to the Pratt & Whitney plant dedicated by then Senator Harry S. Truman in 1942 which manufacturered Double Wasp engines during World War II. In 1949 the Atomic Energy Commission commissioned the Bendix Corporation to build the non-nuclear components of nuclear bombs there with the facility formerly owned by the United States government. Bendix became AlliedSignal in 1983 and eventually Honeywell in 1999.
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