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FAQ: Common Questions About Rickenbacker

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Company page. Summary returned: parent company Electro String Instrument Corporation (ESIC) 'remains in existence today as the corporate entity' and was renamed Rickenbacker International Corporation during a series of mergers (PARAPHRASE; exact wording not captured). Also gives the serial-number convention (post-1960 two-part serials; from 1999 on, the first two digits are the year) for job 7. HTML snapshot captured 2026-10-16 via Directus file import (archived_file); exact wording to be taken from it.

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