Kinecta Federal Credit Union is one of the nation's leading Credit Unions, with over $3 billion in assets and serving more than 200,000 member-owners across the country. From the beginning, we have helped our members fulfill their dreams. In 1940, Hughes Aircraft Employees Federal Credit Union was an idea born from a simple inconvenience: employees of the Hughes Aircraft Company were spending too much lunchtime driving downtown to handle their financial affairs.