In the viewer's 1925-1935 scenario, a larger carrier force creates more aircraft demand than Brewster can meet and keeps Great Lakes Aircraft in business. A surviving Great Lakes could provide competition and another source of interesting designs. Its contribution would depend on which aircraft it actually produced and which orders it received.
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A larger carrier fleet and Great Lakes Aircraft
A larger interwar carrier program could have kept another American aircraft manufacturer alive, but the strategic value would depend on what it actually designed and won orders to build.