Fairchild

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Companies named Fairchild include:

• Fairchild Corporation
• Fairchild Industries, Inc.
• Fairchild Camera and Instrument
• Fairchild Aerial Surveys

• Fairchild Publications, Inc.
• Fairchild Aircraft, an aircraft manufacturer, also variously known as Fairchild-Hiller, Fairchild-Republic and Fairchild-Dornier
• Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada), a Canadian aircraft manufacturer
• Fairchild Semiconductor
• Fairchild Group, a Chinese media company in Canada

Places named Fairchild in the United States:

• Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state
• Fairchild, Wisconsin
• Fairchild (town), Wisconsin
• Fairchilds, Texas

People named Fairchild include:

• Fairchild family, descendants of Thomas Fairchild (1667-1729), English nurseryman
• Barbara Fairchild, American country and gospel singer and songwriter from Knobel, Arkansas
• Caitlin Fairchild, Gen 13 comic book heroine
• Charles S. Fairchild, New York businessman and politician
• David Fairchild, American botanist and plant explorer.
• George Fairchild, American educator and university president
• George Winthrop Fairchild (1854-1924), United States senator
• Lydia Fairchild
• Morgan Fairchild, American actress.
• Sherman Fairchild, inventor and founder of Fairchild Aviation, Fairchild-Strato, Fairchild-Hiller, Fairchild Recording, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument
• Thomas E. Fairchild, U.S. federal judge and former politician

Musical groups named Fairchild include:

• Fairchild, a Japanese pop group featuring You on vocals, active from 1988 - 1993

Things named Fairchild include:

• the Fairchild Channel F, an early video game console
• Fairchild tangerine
• Fairchild, a 1940's controllable bomb

[edit] See also

• Fairchildren