About
The initial members of the Hughes Aircraft management team (photo above) arrived in Colorado beginning in 1969.
The facility, while having attained functional status in 1970, officially went operational in 1971. This photo taken in
1970.
The Hughes Aircraft Retiree’s Association (HARA Colorado) morphed into HARRA (Hughes Aircraft Raytheon
Retirees Association) had its beginnings as an extension of the Los Angeles, CA HARA organization sometime
around 1986 after the Los Angeles, CA unit was formed. HARRA remains as the social organization of those
members who began as Hughes employees, who were then inherited by GM when they purchased the business,
and who finally became Raytheon employees during the last transition of what was once Hughes Aircraft. The
original organization’s name, HARA, was extended to reflect the inherited namesake, Raytheon, and became known
as the Hughes Aircraft, Raytheon Retirees Association (HARRA).