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Douglas

1921-1967 aerospace manufacturer in the United States
Organization business Q651778
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Summary

Douglas is a business[1]. Douglas ranks in the top 2% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,848 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3], DE[4]
  • Instance of: enterprise[5]
  • Founder: Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.[6]
  • Followed by: McDonnell Douglas[7]
  • Headquarters location: Long Beach[8], Santa Monica[9]
  • Commons category: Douglas Aircraft Company[10]
  • Industry: aerospace industry[11], aircraft construction[12], manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery[13], weapons industry[14]
  • Inception: January 1, 1921[15], 2021-07-14[16]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1967[17]
  • Location of formation: Santa Monica[18]
  • Military designation: D[19]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Douglas Aircraft Company[20]
  • Product or material produced: airliner[21], military aircraft[22], missile[23]
  • Replaced by: McDonnell Douglas[24]
  • Official name: Douglas Aircraft Company[25]
  • Legal form: joint-stock company[26], privately held company[27], 2HBR[28]
  • Short name: Douglas[29]
  • Has works in the collection: Aviodrome[30], Finnish Aviation Museum[31], National Air Force Museum of Canada[32], Joe Davies Heritage Airpark[33]
  • P14750: 455D-B999-745D-B6B0-AE6C[34]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 529900381YTPHVY9AI06[35]

  • Registered legal name: Douglas Service GmbH[36]

  • Legal jurisdiction: DE[37]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[38]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): 2HBR[39]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[40]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[41]

  • Entity created: 2021-07-14[42]

  • LEI first registered: 2021-08-24[43]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-06-29[44]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-08-24[45]

  • Managing LOU: 5299000J2N45DDNE4Y28[46]

  • Registration authority: RA000234[47]

  • Authority entity ID: HRB 94247[48]

  • Other names: Douglas GmbH[49]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[50]

Why It Matters

Douglas has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] Douglas is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [38] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [39] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [40] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [41] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [42] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [43] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [44] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [45] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [46] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [47] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [48] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [49] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [50] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [51] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [52] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 25d ago · 本日晴天 · 2026-09-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Cinii research id → 1981149384725529893
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||2 */ Added identifiers that match Nacsis-cat author id ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/bd60316f76e|details]])"
  2. 8w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 455D-B999-745D-B6B0-AE6C
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 455D-B999-745D-B6B0-AE6C, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
  3. 16w ago · 沈澄心 · 2026-06-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Headquarters → —
    Followed by → McDonnell Douglas
    Legal form → joint-stock company, privately held company, 2HBR
    Replaced by → —
    + 26 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Bibsys id: 90869733, Added with [[User:Bargioni/moreIdentifiers|moreIdentifiers]]"
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