Fairchild (disambiguation)
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Organizations

  • Fairchild Aerial Surveys, operated in cooperation with a subsidiary of Fairey Aviation Company
  • Fairchild Aircraft, an aircraft manufacturer, also variously known as Fairchild-Hiller, Fairchild-Republic and Fairchild-Dornier
  • Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada)
    Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada)
    The Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada was an aircraft manufacturer in the period 1920-1950. It served as a subsidiary of the Fairchild Aircraft company of the United States.-Origin:...

    , a Canadian aircraft manufacturer
  • Fairchild Camera and Instrument
    Fairchild Camera and Instrument
    Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation was a company founded by Sherman Fairchild. It was based on the East Coast of the United States, and provided research and development for flash photography equipment...

  • Fairchild Corporation
    Fairchild Corporation
    The Fairchild Corporation is the successor corporation of Fairchild Industries, Inc. Banner Aerospace is one of the company's major subsidiaries.Jeffrey Steiner was the company's CEO until his resignation in October 2008; he died a month later...

  • Fairchild Group
    Fairchild Group
    The Fairchild Group is a business conglomerate in Canada, with headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Fairchild Group operates various media properties under the Fairchild Media Group name. Fairchild operates Fairchild TV , Fairchild Radio , and Mandarin broadcaster TalentVision...

    , a Chinese-language media company in Canada
    • Fairchild TV
      Fairchild TV
      Fairchild TV or FTV is a Canadian Cantonese language Category A specialty channel. It is co-owned by majority owner Fairchild Media Group and Television Broadcasts Limited which owns 20% of the business...

      , a Cantonese-language television channel in Canada owned by the Fairchild Group
  • Fairchild Industries
    Fairchild Industries
    Fairchild Industries was created from a name change from Fairchild Hiller Corporation, division and subsidiaries: Fairchild Aircraft Marketing Company, Fairchild Aircraft Services Division, Fairchild Republic Division, Fairchild Space and Electronics Division, Fairchild Stratos Division, Burns Aero...

    , Inc.
  • Fairchild Publications, Inc.
    Fairchild Publications, Inc.
    Fairchild Fashion Group is a publishing company headquartered in New York City that was formed in 1892 when a peddler by the name of Edmund Fairchild took over a failing newspaper that gave exclusive coverage to the Men's Clothing business. It was eventually named the Daily News Record, and...

  • Fairchild Semiconductor
    Fairchild Semiconductor
    Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. is an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. Founded in 1957, it was a pioneer in transistor and integrated circuit manufacturing...


People

  • Fairchild (name)
    Fairchild (name)
    Fairchild is a common surname of Anglo-Saxon, Dane origin, first recorded in Oxfordshire where the family held a seat from the Dark Ages before the Norman Conquest with the arrival of William the Conqueror at Hastings in 1066....

  • Fairchild family
    Fairchild family
    The Fairchild family has long roots in New England, United States. They descend from Thomas Fairchild who came from England in 1639 and settled in Stratford, Connecticut, a part of the fledgling New Haven Colony.-Genealogy:...

    , descendants of Thomas Fairchild (1610–1670), English nurseryman

Places

  • Fairchild Air Force Base
    Fairchild Air Force Base
    Fairchild Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located approximately southwest of Spokane, Washington.The host unit at Fairchild is the 92d Air Refueling Wing assigned to the Air Mobility Command's 15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Force...

     in Washington state
  • Fairchild, Wisconsin
    Fairchild, Wisconsin
    Fairchild is a village in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 564 at the 2000 census. The village is located within the Town of Fairchild.-Geography:Fairchild is located at ....

  • Fairchild (town), Wisconsin
    Fairchild (town), Wisconsin
    Fairchild is a town in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 351 at the 2000 census. The Village of Fairchild is located within the town.-Geography:...

  • Fairchilds, Texas
    Fairchilds, Texas
    Fairchilds is a village in Fort Bend County, Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The population was 678 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Fairchilds is located at ....

  • Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables
    Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
    Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is a botanic garden, with extensive collections of rare tropical plants including palms, cycads, flowering trees and vines. It is located in metropolitan Miami, just south of Coral Gables, Florida, United States, surrounded at the south and west by Matheson...


Music

  • Fairchild (J-pop group), a Japanese pop group featuring the actress You
    You (actress)
    You is a Japanese model, television personality, singer and actress.She began her career as a singer, releasing her first single "chotto dake" in 1985. She next formed the Japanese pop group Fairchild in 1988, with Seiji Toda and Hirokazu Kawaguchi, serving as vocalist and songwriter...

     on vocals

Other uses

  • The Fairchild Channel F
    Fairchild Channel F
    The Fairchild Channel F is a game console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in August 1976 at the retail price of $169.95. It has the distinction of being the first programmable ROM cartridge-based video game console...

    , an early video game console
  • Fairchild tangerine
    Fairchild tangerine
    The Fairchild tangerine is a bigeneric cross between a Clementine mandarin and an Orlando tangelo. The skin is thin with a deep orange color, is somewhat pebbly, and doesn't peel as easily as some other tangerines. It is juicy with a rich and sweet flavour and contains seeds...

  • Fairchild (mango)
    Fairchild (mango)
    -History:Little is known about the history of the variety,other than that it originated in the Panama Canal Zone during the early 1900s. The fruit was named after the family of David Fairchild, who had taken a liking to the variety. It was first brought to the United States through Hawaii in 1926,...

    , a commercial mango cultivar originating in Panama
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