Fairchild may refer to:

Organizations

* Fairchild Aerial Surveys, operated in cooperation with a subsidiary of

Fairey Aviation Company The Fairey Aviation Company Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Hayes in Middlesex and Heaton Chapel and RAF Ringway in Cheshire. Notable for the design of a number of important military ai ...

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. The technology was primarily used ...

* List of Sherman Fairchild companies, "Fairchild" companies *

Fairchild Fashion Media Fairchild Media is a publisher of fashion trade magazines, websites, and conferences for the fashion, retail and beauty industries. Fairchild Media brands include ''Women’s Wear Daily'', ''Footwear News'' (FN), ''Beauty Inc'', ''M'' and ''Fairch ...

* Fairchild Group, a Chinese-language media company in Canada **

Fairchild TV Fairchild TV or FTV is a Canadian Cantonese language exempt specialty channel."Waging a war over a large, wealthy, educated audience ; Fairchild TV and CFMT are battling it out to deliver the news to Canada's Chinese community". ''Toronto Star'' ...

, a Cantonese-language television channel in Canada owned by the Fairchild Group *

Fairchild-Hiller Corporation Fairchild was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company based at various times in Farmingdale, New York; Hagerstown, Maryland; and San Antonio, Texas. History Early aircraft The company was founded by Sherman Fairchild in ...

, U.S. aviation company **

Fairchild Aircraft Fairchild was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company based at various times in Farmingdale, New York; Hagerstown, Maryland; and San Antonio, Texas. History Early aircraft The company was founded by Sherman Fairchild in ...

, an aircraft manufacturer, division of Fairchild, also variously known as Fairchild-Hiller, Fairchild-Republic and Fairchild-Dornier **

Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada) Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. was an aircraft manufacturer active at Longueuil, Quebec, Canada in the period 1920–50. It served as a subsidiary of the Fairchild Aircraft company of the United States. History Origin Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. came a ...

, a Canadian aircraft manufacturer ** Fairchild Industries, Inc. ; U.S. aviation company, successor to Fairchild Hiller Corporation ** Fairchild Corporation, U.S. aviation company, successor to Fairchild Industries * Fairchild Publications, Inc. *

Fairchild Recording Equipment Corporation Fairchild Recording Equipment Corporation was an American manufacturer of professional audio equipment located in Whitestone, New York. Background The company was founded by Sherman Fairchild in 1931 to augment his interests in photography and im ...

Fairchild Semiconductor Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. Founded in 1957 as a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument, it became a pioneer in the manufacturing of transistors and of int ...

, an American semiconductor company *

Fairchild Systems Fairchild Systems was a United States defense contractor which is now part of BAE Systems Electronics, Intelligence & Support. A descendant of Fairchild Camera and Instrument, the San Francisco Chronicle described Fairchild Systems as "one of the l ...

, U.S. defense contractor *

Sherman Fairchild Foundation The Sherman Fairchild Foundation, founded in 1955, is a charitable foundation of Sherman Fairchild, founder and chairman of the Fairchild Corporations. Sherman Mills Fairchild formed two charitable foundations, the Fairchild Foundation and the S ...

People

Fairchild (name) __NOTOC__ Fairchild is a common surname derived from the Old English words for fair or beautiful and the word child. Originally a given name, early records of its use as a surname are found in Oxfordshire, Surrey and Sussex. List of persons wi ...

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 Among the notable memb ...

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

Places

* Fairchild, Georgia *

Fairchild, Wisconsin Fairchild is a village in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 550 at the 2010 census. The village is located within the Town of Fairchild. History The Fairchild post office has been operating since 1870. The village ...

, a village located within the town of Fairchild *

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 According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area ...

, a town that contains the village of Fairchild *

Fairchild Air Force Base Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force base, located in the northwest United States in eastern Washington, approximately southwest of Spokane. The host unit at Fairchild is the 92nd Air Refueling Wing (92 ARW) assigne ...

, Washington state, USA * Fairchild Beach, Heard Island, subantarctic waters * Fairchild Glacier, Washington state, USA *

Fairchild Mountain Fairchild Mountain is a high mountain summit in the Mummy Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The thirteener is located in the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness, northwest ( bearing 311°) of the Town of Estes Park in L ...

, Colorado, USA * Fairchild Peak, Antarctica * Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables *

Fairchilds, Texas Fairchilds is a village in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The population was 763 at the 2010 census, up from 678 at the 2000 census. As of 2018 the population had risen t ...

* William R. Fairchild International Airport, Port Angeles, Washington state, USA

Entertainment

* FairChild (2007 videogame), a Japanese visual novel * The

Fairchild Channel F The Fairchild Channel F, short for "Channel Fun", is a video game console, the first to be based on a microprocessor and to use ROM cartridges instead of having games built-in. It was released by Fairchild Camera and Instrument in November 1976 a ...

, an early video game console

Food

* Fairchild (mango), a commercial mango cultivar originating in Panama * Fairchild tangerine

Other

Fairchild Memorial Hall Fairchild Memorial Hall houses the Air University (United States), Air University (AU) library at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The premier library in the United States Department of Defense, the AU Library holds especially strong collections ...