The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

U.S. federal agency; predecessor to NASA

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a United States federal agency that was founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. On October 1, 1958, the agency was dissolved and its assets and personnel were…