Sabena technics, formerly TAT Industries, is the maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) arm of the French TAT Group family of aviation services companies. The company provides a range of aviation maintenance services to European regional carries, independent aircraft operators, and the military aircraft of several European nations. Services include engineering and technical data management, airframe maintenance, aircraft painting, component repair and overhaul, and spare parts sales and distribution. Sabena operates through about 15 sites primarily located in Europe and the Asia Pacific region serving customers around the globe.

Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems (MABS), formerly K&F Industries Holdings, wants to bring aviation to a screeching halt. MABS makes steel brakes, carbon brakes, electric brakes, brake control systems, landing gear computers, brake temperature sensors, main and nose wheels, and wheel speed transducers. MABS braking systems are used in commercial and business jets, military aircraft, helicopters, regional turboprops, and general aviation aircraft. Major customers include Bombardier, Embraer, Gulfstream Aerospace, and Hawker Beechcraft. Meggitt USA, a subsidiary of UK-based Meggitt PLC, purchased K&F Industries in June 2007.

Aegean Airlines provides regional passenger services to 46 destinations across Germany, Italy, and southeastern Europe (excluding Spain and Ireland), and it recently started flying across the Mediterranean to Cairo. It has a fleet of 25 aircraft -- nine Airbus A320 and A321 planes, 10 Boeings, and six AVRO RJ-100 jets. Aegean is Greece's second-largest airline, behine Olympic Airlines. Having already earlier joined forces with Cronus Airlines and Air Greece, Aegean Airlines is now in a code-sharing agreement with Lufthansa and Air One, an Italian airline. Founded in 1994, Aegean Airlines traces its beginnings to a company founded in 1987 by Antonis and Nikolaos Simigdalas called Aegean Aviation.

ABC is the only organization in the world delivering from the scheduled manufacture of airships. It is a privately held corporation with a strong financial base. ABC has about 45 employees at its Hillsboro, OR headquarters where the airships are designed and constructed in a 2300 m2 (25,000 ft2) facility housing administrative offices and shop space. An additional 280 m2 (3000 ft2) for production is leased in a large airship hangar in Tillamook, OR. The final assembly and flight test is accomplished at an appropriate site near the customer's location. A marketing office for airship applications in government missions and civil aid is located in Severna Park, MD, near Washington, DC. The Lightship Group (TLG), a wholly owned subsidiary of ABC, operates and sell Lightships for advertising and tourism around the world. TLG has more than 200 employees, and is operating 17 airships. Those in the USA are operated as an Air Carrier under FAR Part 135. TLG is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with offices in Telford, UK, Singapore and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

For the right price, Ameristar Jet Charter will fly nearly anything nearly anywhere. The charter operator has a fleet of more than 30 aircraft -- mainly Learjet and Falcon models -- that it uses to transport both passengers and freight to destinations in North and South America. The carrier handles cargo of a wide variety of sizes and weights. Ameristar Jet Charter dispatches its fleet from the airport in Addison, Texas, north of Dallas.

Radar, missiles, missile defense systems, and torpedoes are all in day's work for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS). A division of defense giant Raytheon, IDS designs, integrates, and maintains complex airborne, land, and naval technologies designed for both offensive and defensive operations. Major offerings include ballistic missile early warning radar systems, air-defense missile systems (Patriot), navigation and surveillance radars, ship- and helicopter-based anti-submarine sonars, naval defense systems, and naval torpedoes. It serves the US Armed Forces, the Department of Homeland Security, and the US Missile Defense Agency, to name a few.

Thales Aerospace Company Profile Thales Aerospace is the leading onboard electronics contractor in Europe for civil and military aircraft, including helicopters. Its products include cockpit and cabin electronics, defense equipment, onboard utilities, power generation and navigation systems, and in-flight entertainment systems. The business serves airlines, military forces, defense agencies, and aircraft manufacturers, including Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier Aerospace, Gulfstream, and Eurocopter, among others. It is a business unit of the Aerospace/Space segment of French aerospace and defense company Thales. Thales Aerospace has industrial operations in Asia/Pacific, Europe, and North America.

Umeco plc is a leading international provider of supply chain services and advanced composite materials primarily to the aerospace & defence, automotive, motor sport and wind turbine industries.The majority of these products and services are supplied to major customers including Boeing, Airbus, BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce plc, Parker Aerospace, Goodrich, ATK, Lockheed Martin and the US Department of Defence.The Group is managed through two divisions: Supply Chain and Composites and had revenue in the year to March 2009 of £415.3 million. Umeco plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (umc.l)

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.

Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. provides logistics services in the United States and internationally. The company's services include consolidating or forwarding air and ocean freight; distribution management; vendor consolidating; providing cargo insurance; purchase order managing; and offering customized logistics information. Its airfreight services comprise the procurement of shipments from its customers; determination of the routing; consolidation of shipments bound for a particular airport distribution point; and selection of the airlines for transportation to the distribution point.The company also offers breakbulk services that include receiving and breaking down consolidated airfreight lots and arranging for distribution of the individual shipments. Its ocean freight and ocean services include freight consolidation from Asia to the United States; and handling full container loads.The company also acts as a customs broker, who assists importers to clear shipments through customs by preparing required documentation and calculations, as well as provides other value added services at destination, such as warehousing and product distribution, time definite transportation, and inventory management. In addition, it offers custom clearances for goods moving by rail and truck. The company's customers primarily include computer retailers, distributors of consumer electronics, department store chains, clothing and shoe wholesalers, manufacturers, and catalogue stores. Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

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