The Goodrich Corporation, formerly the B.F. Goodrich Company, was an American aerospace manufacturing company based in C******te, North Carolina. Founded in Akron, Ohio in 1870 as Goodrich, Tew&Co. by Dr.Benjamin Franklin Goodrich. The company name was changed to the "B.F. Goodrich Company" in1880, to BFGoodrich in the 1980s, and to "Goodrich Corporation" in2001.