Aerospace & Defense Parts Manufacturing Industry Competitors

Environmental Tectonics Corporation (ETC) believes virtual environments can teach us a lot about real life. Through its aircrew training systems segment, the company makes software-driven flight simulators, disaster simulators, and motion-based simulation rides for the amusement industry....

Italy's largest engineering and aerospace/defense group, Finmeccanica makes helicopters, military aircraft, defense systems, satellites, and much more. The company operates through some 100 subsidiaries in Italy and elsewhere. While the aerospace and defense businesses account for more than 80% of sales, all is not fight or flight....

FLIR Systems can see through smoke screens. The company's thermal imaging and obscurant-proof camera systems detect heat and radiation, thus allowing operators to see objects through fog, darkness, or smoke. FLIR's imaging products enhance vision for military and commercial applications such as search and rescue, drug interdiction, border patrol, surveillance, navigation, and newsgathering....

Whether you're flying an airplane or driving a tractor, Hawk wants to help put a stop to it. The company's friction products segment manufactures components used in brakes, clutches, and transmissions for off-highway vehicles, motorcycles, and trucks, along with brake parts for commercial and general aircraft landing systems....

Hi-Shear Technology cuts loose with electronic, pyrotechnic, and mechanical devices for the aerospace industry. The company's power cartridges and separation devices provide release on command for structures designed to hold together under rigorous conditions....

Jet engines and thermostats seem worlds apart, but they're Honeywell International's bread and butter. The company's largest business segment, Automation and Control, includes home and industrial heating, ventilation, and manufacturing process products....

ILC Industries' products have been sighted in outer space and inside computers. The holding company's ILC Dover subsidiary makes containment systems and inflatable devices (blimps, space suits, chemical-biological warfare protection suits, and odor containment covers) for industrial, military, and space applications....

Senior plc only sounds like it might be a tad stodgy. In reality, it's flexibility that keeps the company on track. Senior's automotive division (Flexonics) makes flexible exhaust connectors, flexible metallic hoses, diesel fuel systems, engine emission components, ventilation ducting, and metallic and fabric expansion joints....

Jet engine repair, airbag inflators, cigarette lighters, and tuxedos. Sounds like a shopping list for James Bond, but it's a partial list of Sequa's businesses. Its largest unit, aerospace, includes Chromalloy Gas Turbine, which makes and repairs jet engine parts for airlines and other customers....

What do airline seats and sirens have in common? No, it's not the emergency created when your mother-in-law tries to squeeze into a coach seat -- they're both products made by Seton House Group (formerly Britax International). The company operates through two divisions: aircraft interiors and public safety equipment....

AAI flies high, with or without pilots. The company, once the primary subsidiary of United Industrial and now a part of Textron, makes unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems for the US military and other customers....

AD Aerospace has lots of eyes in the sky. The company makes video equipment for the aerospace industry. Its video products are designed primarily for aircraft security purposes -- inside and out. Its FlightVu Defender product uses up to eight cameras around the outside of an aircraft, allowing all sides to be viewed simultaneously....

Learning by trial-and-error isn't acceptable when the product in question is a multimillion-dollar aircraft, so Aero Simulation, Inc., (ASI) makes and upgrades commercial and military flight simulators used in pilot training. ASI has created simulators for aircraft made by companies such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Bell, and Sikorsky....

Aero Tec Laboratories makes high-tech fuel bladders and tanks that are designed to stop leaks and keep fuel in the tanks of airplanes, helicopters, and cars. Originally designed for aerospace use, the bladders have migrated to the racetrack and are being tested for use in passenger cars....

AeroMechanical Services (AMS) makes simple -- and not-so-simple -- products for aerospace customers. Simple offerings include underfloor stowage units, rock guards (for plane lights and antennas) and ice shields. Not-so-simple items include data collection and transmission devices such as the Automated Flight Information Reporting System, which automatically collects and transmits flight information data; and the AirQ Cabin Air Sterilization System, which cleans cabin air....

Aerospace Communications Holdings' products are out of this world. Established in 1990, the company manufactures and sells military, aerospace, and textile products. Its major offerings include missile weapon systems, communication systems for military and civilian uses, global system for mobile communication (GSM) products, code division multiple access (CDMA) systems, and cotton and woolen goods....

AIM Group is a high-altitude interior decorator. The company -- which does business as AIM Aviation -- develops, manufactures, and installs aircraft interior components and equipment. Airline passengers can readily see its lavatories, overhead storage bins, sidewall panels, ceiling panels, closets, class dividers, crew rests, passenger service units, and life raft storage units....

Air Cruisers can be an aviator's best buddy if the skies turn unfriendly. The company makes life vests, life rafts, helicopter floats, and evacuation slides for corporate, military, and commercial aircraft. Air Cruisers' smallest life rafts hold four people while the largest can accommodate nearly 60....

Precision products are precisely Axsys Technologies' business. The company makes optical systems used in fighter planes, tanks, and other military and commercial applications. Offerings include precision metal optical, infrared optical, and motion control products, along with precision machined lightweight structures....

Ball Aerospace & Technologies runs the gamut from A to V -- antennas to video systems -- with stops in between for GPS equipment, high-tech subsystems, and systems integration. A subsidiary of Ball Corporation, the company's antennas include models for airborne, naval, and land-based applications; military platforms include the Joint Strike Fighter (officially named the Lightning II), F/A-18, and the Advanced Tactical Missile System....