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Ducommun Incorporated is a manufacturing company that supplies products, engineering and support services to the global aerospace and defense industry. Founded in 1849, Ducommun is recognized as the oldest business in California and today manufactures structural and electronic components and sub-assemblies for a wide range of commercial, military and space platforms including the Boeing 737 NG and 777 airliners, the C-17 heavy lift cargo jet, the Apache, Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters, the Space Shuttle, International Space Station and Mars Rover. For decades, Ducommun has designed and manufactured complex electronic systems and sub-assemblies for advanced missile programs and platforms, and provided engineering and program management services to the United States Military, the United States Department of Homeland Security, NASA and other government agencies. Ducommun's approximately 2,700 employees work at its 17 manufacturing centers located in California, Arkansas, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, New York, Wisconsin, Thailand and Mexico. Its corporate headquarters is based in Santa Ana, California. Ducommun was established in 1849 by Charles Louis Ducommun, a watchmaker by training, who emigrated to the United States from Switzerland in the early 1840s. The Company started as a general store, providing supplies and credit to gold prospectors and other pioneers who had settled in the burgeoning pueblo of Los Angeles. At the time, California was still a territory of the United States, just on the verge of statehood with the population of Los Angeles then standing at just about 1,600. The store had a public "circulating library", lending books if paid in full with a full refund upon return.