Kaman Aerospace is best known for its Super Seasprite and K-MAX Aerial Truck helicopters, but it does much more than make maritime and large transport helicopters. A subsidiary of Kaman Corporation, its other aerospace offerings include electro-optic devices (light detection and ranging systems), fuzes and safety systems (munitions safing and arming devices), aircraft components (wing structures, engine doors, and machined parts), rugged memory systems (disk and solid state), aerospace bearings (Kamatics), and non-contact position measuring systems (used to measure alignment, thickness, dimensions, pressure, and vibration). Kaman Aerospace maintains facilities in the US and Australia.

Business aircraft run on Duncan Aviation services, plain and simple. Founded in 1956 as a distributorship for Beechcraft airplanes, Duncan delivers maintenance services for business aircraft including Challenger, Citation, Falcon, Gulfstream, Hawker, and Learjet models. The company services airframe and engine maintenance, avionics and instrument overhaul and repair, parts support, painting services, and interior completions. Duncan operates full-service facilities in Nebraska and Michigan and satellite maintenance centers at airports throughout the US. Declining corporate business forced jobs cuts of more than 20% nationwide in 2009. The company is owned by the Duncan family.

TAT Group company through two of its divisions, offers aviation leasing and maintenance services, primarily to the European commercial airline industry. Subsidiary TAT LEASING specializes in leasing regional aircraft to customers; its Magellan Air unit offers aircraft asset management services for companies and other aircraft owners. Through the company's maintenance division, TAT Group provides some 3,000 technicians, who provide services for both regional and major airlines in the US, Europe, and Asia. TAT Group also invests in European office real estate projects through its TAT immobilier subsidiary.

TASER International, Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells electronic control devices for use in the law enforcement, military, corrections, private security, and personal defense markets in the United States and internationally. The company offers two product lines for law enforcement, military, corrections, and professional security market, which include TASER X26 product line consisting of TASER X26, various cartridges, a battery system, a digital power magazine, download software and equipment, extended warranties, and holstering options and accessories; and ADVANCED TASER M26 product line comprising the ADVANCED TASER M26, various cartridges, rechargeable batteries, a battery charging system, data download software and equipment, and various holstering options and accessories. It also manufactures TASER C2, ADVANCED TASER M18, ADVANCED TASER M18L, and TASER X26c devices for the consumer market. The company sells its products through its direct sales force, distribution partners, online store, and third party resellers. It also markets and distributes its products internationally through a network of distributors. The company was formerly known as TASER International, Incorporated and changed its name to TASER International, Inc. in January 2001. TASER International, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Gulf Air helps travelers from around the world find their way to the Persian Gulf, or, more precisely, to Bahrain. From its hub at Bahrain International Airport in Manama, the carrier serves more than 40 cities in more than 30 countries worldwide with a fleet of about 30 jet aircraft, mostly Airbus A320s and A330s. It serves additional destinations via code-sharing, a common industry practice in which carriers sell tickets on one another's flights and thus extend their networks. An affiliate provides air cargo transportation services. Gulf Air, which is owned by the government of Bahrain, began operations in 1950.

British and brash, Virgin Atlantic Airways is a leading player in Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group collection of branded companies. From its hubs in the UK (London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports, plus Manchester), the airline serves about 30 destinations around the world with a fleet of about 40 aircraft. It extends its network via code-sharing relationships with carriers such as Air China, Continental Airlines, Singapore Airlines, and Australia-based sister company Virgin Blue. (Code-sharing allows airlines to sell tickets on one another's flights and thus offer potential passengers more destinations.) Virgin Group owns 51% of Virgin Atlantic, and Singapore Airlines owns a 49% stake.

General Dynamics Aviation Services Company Profile General Dynamics Aviation Services (GDAS) keeps Gulfstream -- and other corporate jets -- flying high. A subsidiary of General Dynamics (maker of Gulfstream, the world's most popular corporate jet), GDAS provides a wide variety of aerospace maintenance, repair, and overhaul services. Primary offerings include engineering support, avionics installation, interior refurbishment, airframe and engine maintenance, landing gear and auxiliary power unit overhaul services, and painting services. Despite its Gulfstream family ties, GDAS also works on Bombardier, Cessna, Dassault, and Hawker Beechcraft aircraft. GDAS operates locations in Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Texas, and Wisconsin.

Hawker Pacific Aerospace's history began in 1912 with Harry Hawker asking Thomas Sopwith for flying lessons. Within a few years Hawker became one of the best pilots of his time. He was Sopwith's top test pilot.After World War I the government canceled all orders with Sopwith leaving him in financial ruins. Hawker and a group of people took over all of Sopwith's patent rights, forming Hawker Engineering. In 1921 Harry Hawker died from injuries obtained from a airplane crash. After Hawker's death Thomas Sopwith became Chairman of Hawker Engineering.Within a short time Hawker Engineering had taken over many other companies related to Aviation. In 1933, Hawker Engineering became Hawker Aircraft Ltd., and shortly after that became Hawker Siddeley Company. In 1934, Hawker Aircraft was given the contract to build an aircraft for the RAF. This aircraft became one England's strongest weapons against Germany, the Hurricane. Hawker Siddeley went on to produce many other aircraft for the war effort.

GKN Aerospace Chem-tronics fabricates components (such as doors, ducts, enclosures, exhaust nozzles, keels, and bulkheads) for commercial, military aircraft, and spacecraft. The company, a subsidiary of GKN, specializes in lightweight chemically-milled titanium and aluminum alloy parts for engines, airframe structures, and launch vehicles. GKN Aerospace Chem-tronics makes components for Aerojet, Allison, Boeing, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney, Rocketdyne, Rolls-Royce, and other aerospace companies. Additional products include complex welds, cases, modules, pressure vessels, and rings. The company was founded in 1953.

Emrise Corporation. is an international manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic devices and subsystems and telecommunications equipment.Emrise’s electronic devices group, which includes EEC Corporation and its subsidiaries, provides standard and custom power conversion products, RF and microwave devices and subsystems and subsystem assemblies to the global electronic components market, primarily for defense, aerospace, telecommunication and industrial applications. Emrise’s telecommunications group, consisting of CXR Larus Corporation and CXR Anderson Jacobson, provide transmission and network access equipment, timing and synchronization systems and test equipment to the International communications industry. Founded in 1983, the Company operates out of facilities in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.

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