Aerojet Engineering Corporation First Plant: AIAA Historic Aerospace Site

AIAA Historic Aerospace Site. On this site in 1942, the Aerojet Engineering Company founded the first manufacturing facility for the production of rocket propulsion systems. This was done under the leadership of Aerojet's first president, Dr. Theodore von Kármán, world-renowned scientist and engineer from the California Institute of Technology. The plant remained here until 1945. . This historical marker was erected in 2000 by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. It is in North Arroyo in Pasadena in Los Angeles County California