Ultra Electronics is a group of specialist businesses designing, manufacturing and supporting electronic and electromechanical systems, sub-systems and products for defence, security and aerospace applications worldwide.Ultra, which employs 3,000 people in the UK and North America, focuses on high integrity sensing, control, communication and display systems with an emphasis on integrated Information Technology solutions. The Group concentrates on obtaining a technological edge in niche markets, with many of its products and technologies being market leaders in their field.Ultra’s products and services are used on aircraft, ships, submarines, armoured vehicles, surveillance and communication systems, airports and transport systems around the world. Ultra plays an important role in supporting prime contractors by undertaking specialist system and sub-system integration using the combined expertise of the Group businesses.Ultra is a world-leading aerospace and defence electronics company providing specialist products to customers across the globe. Ultra’s status is demonstrated by the Group’s involvement in so many of the major defence programmes in the UK, USA and around the world. Ultra is winning contracts for integrated systems of ever increasing size, often involving a number of different Group businesses. The heart of the Group’s success continues to be its ability to expand its order book coupled with successful programme implementation culminating in the delivery to our customers of niche products and solutions using Ultra’s differentiated technologies. Growth has been achieved through continued investment in new products, teaming arrangements to gain access to technologies and markets and through carefully selected strategic acquisitions. The equivalent of twenty per cent of Group turnover is expended in research and development activities to develop advanced technology solutions to customers’ problems. Ultra strives to maintain strategic supplier’ status with its customers by providing ‘best value for money’ solutions.

Airbus really knows how to pack 'em in. Passengers, that is. The commercial aircraft manufacturer makes the jumbo 525-seat A380, the largest civil airliner in service. It also makes more than a dozen other aircraft models, ranging from single-aisle (A318, A319, A320, A321) to wide-body (A300, A310, A330, A340), with capacities ranging from about 100 to 400 passengers. Airbus vies with Boeing to be the world's #1 commercial jet maker. Its mid-sized A350 XWB model -- due for delivery in 2013 -- is expected to compete against Boeing's upcoming 787 Dreamliner. The company is also expanding into the military transport aircraft sector with airlifters and aerial tankers. Airbus is owned by EADS.

Flying passengers to vacation spots throughout Europe, the Mediterranean, and North Africa, Transavia provides charter service (on behalf of tour operators) to about 75 destinations and low-cost scheduled service to more than 25 destinations. The carrier operates a fleet of about 30 Boeing 737s, primarily from Amsterdam but also from other airports in the Netherlands and from Paris. Along with providing transportation services, customers can arrange hotel accommodations and ground transportation (provided by partners) through Transavia's Web site. Transavia is a unit of Dutch national airline KLM, which in turn is part of Air France-KLM, Europe's largest airline company.

Wyman-Gordon company is one of the largest producers of forgings and castings -- the metal and composite material parts used in aerospace turbine engines, land-based gas turbines, and power plants. Its aerospace turbine products include seals, shafts, and hubs used in jet engines; aerospace structural products include bulkheads, tail flaps, and similar components for major manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Boeing. Wyman-Gordon's land-based products include seamless steel pipe, shafts, and valves used by commercial power plant builders.

Cypriots traveled from their island home in triremes, but now all they have to do is book a flight on Cyprus Airways. Operating a fleet of 11 Airbus jets, the government-owned carrier flies to 31 destinations in Europe and the Middle East. After four years of losses, the airline underwent a restructuring plan in 2006 that cut jobs, wages, and operations, but it successfully posted a profit in 2007. Cyprus Airways is 70% owned by the government of Cyprus and 30% owned by private investors. The airline is listed on the Cyprus Stock Exchange.

Avantair, Inc. engages in the sale and management of fractional ownership interests and charter card usage of professionally piloted aircraft for personal and business use in North America. It sells fractional ownership shares of aircraft and charter cards. The company, through fixed flight based operations, provides aircraft maintenance, concierge, and other services to its customers in Clearwater, Florida; Camarillo, California; and Caldwell, New Jersey. It also offers pilot, maintenance, fuel, and hangar space for the aircraft. In addition, the company operates demonstration flights. Avantair, Inc. markets its fractional ownership interests to individuals and businesses. As of June 30, 2009, it operated 52 aircraft, including 46 aircraft for fractional ownership, 5 company owned aircraft, and 1 leased and company managed aircraft. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Clearwater, Florida.

Emivest Aerospace Corporation is a US-based aircraft manufacturing company and a subsidiary of Emirates Investment & Development PSC (Emivest). Emivest Aerospace Corporation produces the SJ30, the world’s fastest, longest range and highest flying light jet. The SJ30 is the first aircraft of its kind in the business jet segment to retain sea level cabin pressure at 41,000ft and reach a top flying height of 49,000ft. Edward J. Swearingen was instrumental in creating a unique position fo rSJ30 in the global aviation market. Emivest Aerospace Corporation will become the first company in the United States to design and develop, build, certify and deliver to the market a totally new concept business jet in the form of the SJ30. Headquartered at the San Antonio International Airport (KSAT), with over 300 staff employed at facilities in San Antonio, and Martinsburg, West Virginia where the SJ30 is built.

The long wave that Long Wave has been riding is wireless communications. The government contractor provides communications engineering, antenna and tower maintenance, IT and help desk support services, training and simulation, and program management services to a number of agencies. It specializes in military communications, particularly radio-frequency (RF) and high-frequency (HF) global communications systems. Long Wave's government customers include the US Navy and US Air Force. In addition, its commercial customers include Raytheon, Rockwell Collins, and EDS. Founded by president Phil Miller in 1995, Long Wave has program operations in 19 US states.

Chemring has several subsidiaries, but none of them has much to do with chemicals or rings. Go figure. The company is largely about aerospace and defense countermeasures and marine and military electronics and pyrotechnics. Primary products include air, land, and naval countermeasures that defeat incoming missiles; marine safety electronics and pyrotechnics, including emergency beacons, radios, and emergency flares; and military pyrotechnics used for training purposes. The company acquired Titan Dynamics Systems (pyrotechnics used in warfare training) from Allied Defense Group in 2008 for a reported $4.7 million. Chemring's international group of subsidiaries are based in Australia, Spain, and the US.

Northrop Grumman announced several structural actions to strengthen alignment with its customers, improve the company’s program performance and growth potential, and enhance its cost competitiveness. These actions included streamlining its organizational structure, reducing the number of sectors from seven to five. The five sectors are Aerospace Systems, Electronic Systems, Information Systems, Shipbuilding and Technical Services. Our new Aerospace Systems sector, a merger of the former Integrated Systems and Space Technology sectors, created an approximately $10 billion business whose approximately 24,000 employees comprise a premier provider of manned and unmanned aircraft, space systems, missile systems and advanced technologies critical to our nation’s security.

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