Robert F. Yonash

Who was Robert F. Yonash?

Robert F. Yonash was an engineer in the early days of the aircraft industry. He was a member of the start-up management team for the Texas Engineering & Manufacturing Company, which eventually became the "T" in the conglomerate Ling-Temco-Vought. He was the co-founder, with Harold Silver, of the Intercontinental Manufacturing Company, which is currently owned by General Dynamics.

Yonash made an important contribution to the aircraft industry after World War II by finding ways to ease the transition from wartime production to a consumer-based economy, as well as from an aircraft industry to the military-industrial complex that characterized the Cold War.

Following his career in the aircraft industry, Yonash was an entrepreneur in Sonoma County, California for nearly forty years.