Scaled Composites

Scaled Composites often abbreviated to Scaled is an aerospace company owned by Northrop Grumman since 2007 that was founded in 1982 in Mojave, California by famed aircraft designer Burt Rutan and formerly called Rutan Aircraft Factory. The company was founded to develop experimental aircraft, but is currently focused on the design and development of concept aircraft and prototype manufacturing processes for aircraft and other vehicles. It is known for interesting designs and its use of non-metallic composite materials.

On April 1, 2004, the US Department of Transportation authorized the company it listed as the world's first to have a license for sub-orbital manned flight. The license was approved by the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, which had supported licenses for more than 150 commercial launches of unmanned vehicles during its 20 years of existence, but never a license for manned flight on a sub-orbital trajectory. Mojave Airport, which operates part-time as Mojave Spaceport, was the launch point for SpaceShipOne. SpaceShipOne carried out the first privately manned sub-orbital spaceflight on June 21, 2004.

Aeronautical projects

Like Rutan Aircraft Factory

Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ

• Model 27 VariViggen (1972)
• Model 31 VariEze (1975)
• Model 32 VariViggen SP (1973)
• Model 33 VariEze (1976)
• Model 35 AD-1 (1979)
• Model 40/74 Defiant (1978)
• Model 54 Quickie (1978)
• Model 61 Long-EZ (1979)
• Model 68 AMSOIL Racer (1981)
• Model 73 NGT: Fairchild T-46(1981) 3/5 scale model
• Model 76 Voyager: First aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth without stops (1986)
• Model 77 Solitaire (1982)

Scaled Composites

Model 76 Voyager

Beechcraft 2000 Starship

• Model 115 Starship (1982)
• Model 133 ATTT (1987)
• Model 143 Triumph (1988)
• Model TRA324 Scarab (1988)
• Model 151 ARES (1990)
• Model 158 Pond Racer (1990)
• Bell Eagle Eye (1993)
• Model 247 Vantage (1996)
• Model 271 V-Jet II (1997)
• Model 276 NASA X-38 (1998)
• Model 281 Proteus (1998)
• Roton ATV (1999)
• Model 309 Adam M-309: Adam A500 (2000) Prototype
• Model 326 Northrop Grumman X-47A (2001)
• Model 302 Toyota TAA-1 (2002)
• Tier One (2003)
  • Model 316 SpaceShipOne
  • Model 318 White Knight
• Model 311 Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer: Same mission as Voyager, except a solo flight using a jet engine (2004)
• Tier 1b (2008)
  • Model 339 SpaceShipTwo
  • Model 348 WhiteKnightTwo
• Model 367 BiPod (2011)