CAE USA makes flight simulators and trainers for military and civilian planes and helicopters. Products include flight and weapons simulators and tactical air defense trainers. Its systems reproduce instruments, controls, and mission operator stations, and offer computerized visual simulations with realistic, high-resolution images. CAE USA has more than 25 US training sites and aviation services. Customers include Airbus, FedEx Corporation, Lockheed Martin, the US Navy and US Air Force, and the UK's Royal Air Force. Formerly known as Reflectone (and owned by BAE), the company was acquired by CAE Inc. in 2001.

Spirit Airlines aims to lift the spirits of people seeking sunshine: The low-fare carrier makes connections between major US cities and popular vacation spots in Florida, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Overall, Spirit Airlines serves more than 40 destinations. It operates a fleet of about 30 Airbus 319s, 320s, and 321s. In addition to offering scheduled passenger service, the company works with partners in the travel industry to sell vacation packages through its Web site. Investment firm Indigo Partners, an aviation industry specialist, owns a majority interest in Spirit Airlines, which was founded in 1980 as Charter One.

Air Cargo Carriers, Inc. has been synonymous with dependability and quality in the air freight industry since 1986. As the company has grown, so has the number of industries it serves.Today, Air Cargo Carriers continues to provide the greatest customer care driven service to the air freight industry as well as many others. By carrying over the core belief structure forged in the air freight business of providing the customer what they want, on time and at a competitive rate, Air Cargo is able to provide superior products and services to the growing list of satisfied customers.

If you're going from Vienna to Vilnius, you might very well be venturing via Austrian Airlines (AUA). The national carrier, operating from its hub in Vienna, serves more than 100 destinations in some 60 countries through its Austrian Air, Austrian Arrows, and Lauda Air units and their fleet of about 100 aircraft. AUA also offers air cargo transportation and charter flights. The carrier extends its network as part of the Star Alliance, an airline marketing and code-sharing group led by United Airlines and Lufthansa. (Code-sharing arrangements enable airlines to sell tickets on one another's flights and thus serve more destinations.) Lufthansa took control of AUA in September 2009, upping its stake to 95%.

AAI Corporation was founded in 1950. Today, we are a global corporation providing a vast array of innovative aerospace and defense technologies. Our businesses include tactical unmanned aircraft systems for the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, and allied armed forces, as well as training and simulation systems, automated aircraft test and maintenance equipment, armament systems, aviation ground support equipment, and logistical, engineering, and supply chain management services. AAI became an operating unit of Textron Systems Corporation and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Textron Inc. in late 2007. United Industrial Corporation, AAI’s parent company, was publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange until its acquisition by Textron in late 2007. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Md., AAI has more than 621,000 square feet of facilities and manufacturing space. We also have key facilities in Charleston, S.C.; Choctaw, Miss.; Sierra Vista, Ariz.; Huntsville, Ala.; Austin, Texas; and Orlando, Fla.; as well as numerous field offices around the country that support various defense industry customer bases and requirements. We are more than 2,600 employees strong, and our annual sales in 2007 were $663 million. AAI Services Corporation, formerly AAI Engineering Support Inc., is a wholly owned subsidiary of AAI. Also headquartered in Hunt Valley, AAI Services was founded in 1981 and provides training, engineering and logistical support, and supply chain management services for its customers’ systems, facilities, and equipment on a worldwide basis. Our strategic acquisitions in recent years include electronic warfare systems company ESL Defence Limited of the United Kingdom, Australian unmanned aircraft systems developer Aerosonde Pty Ltd, and functional test systems manufacturer Symtx Inc. of Austin, Texas.

Island-hopping Aer Arann provides scheduled passenger transportation service to more than 25 destinations, primarily in Ireland and the UK but also in Northern France. Most of its flights originate from Cork, Dublin, or Galway. The carrier operates a fleet of about a dozen ATR 72-500 turboprop aircraft, which were chosen in part for their fuel efficiency. Chairman Padraig O'Ceidigh owns a controlling stake in the company, which he acquired in 1994. Aer Arann began operations in 1970 to fly between Galway and the Aran Islands, off Ireland's western coast.

Hydro-Aire was established in 1943 and started the antiskid industry in 1946 with development of the Hytrol Mark I antiskid system for the Boeing/USAF B-47. From that initial installation, Hydro-Aire has continuously designed and developed more refined and sophisticated, high performance analog (Mark II and III), digital (Mark IV) and brake-by-wire (Mark V) systems for the majority of the worlds aircraft fleets. Hydro-Aire products provide our customers with Fluid Management Solutions, and Landing Systems Solutions. Hydro-Aire brake control systems are provided for all major airframe manufacturers. Over the years, Hydro-Aire brake control products have been selected and specified for the majority of applications in all Aerospace market segments (Commercial, Regional/Commuter, Business, and Military) including the evolving Military Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle (UAV) sector. The experience gained, with more airframes, brakes, materials and landing gear than any other supplier, provides the expertise to solve problems, and provide the best, most adaptive, safe and reliable antiskid, autobrake, and brake control systems and solutions. Hydro-Aire provides on-time delivery of the highest value system giving the customer the right performance for the application.Hydro-Aire brings more experience, expertise, and excellence to the aircraft or landing gear team than any other brake control supplier. The result is on-time delivery of a quality product that ensures improved stopping performance and higher landing weights with shorter certified stopping distances.

The Million Air chain of fixed-base operations stands as the nation's premier provider of upscale, private aviation services. Million Air currently delivers general aviation services through a chain of separate franchises strategically located across the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. Million Air Interlink, Inc. owns the Million Air name and franchising rights.A Fixed-Base Operation (FBO) is essentially a refueling facility for aircraft that offers a variety of aviation-related services. The past five years have seen the purchase of many of the nation's leading FBOs and FBO chains by larger companies seeking growth in the private aviation market. These companies recognize the opportunities created by a rapidly expanding private aviation fleet and the limited airport space available for FBOs.Today, a larger percentage of affluent individuals and companies are utilizing private aviation instead of facing the uncertainties, inconvenience and safety issues associated with commercial aviation. Scheduled new aircraft deliveries will further stretch the capacity of the nation's FBOs. These developments will dramatically enhance the value of the Million Air franchise and provide exciting growth opportunities for the Million Air chain.

EADS North America Test and Services, a division of EADS North America, headquartered in Irvine, CA, is a complete test and measurement systems provider. Benefiting from more than 50 years experience in the test and measurement business, EADS North America Test and Services offers a full range of products and capabilities that include integrated test solutions, custom designs, complete turn-key hardware and software systems, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) instrumentation, test software, and engineering solutions that address test instrumentation obsolescence. From “build-to-print” to imaginative development of state-of-the-art products, we have the experienced instrument and system design engineers, test program set developers, avionics test domain experts and manufacturing capabilities needed for all test solutions. Our engineering teams work with the major test system bus architectures and standards: VXI, LXI, PXI, and digital, as well as rack-mount and bench-top instrumentation. We market three of the industry’s most respected brands: Racal Instruments™, Talon Instruments™ and Tabor Instruments (with responsibility for U.S. distribution). In addition to our reputation as a leading supplier of test and measurement instruments and switching systems, EADS North America Test and Services can leverage the company’s electronic, mechanical, software, and system engineering department capabilities to either reengineer an existing product to meet specific needs, or develop a customer concept into a complete, manufacturable, supportable product.

Sunshine and fresh air make up a prescription for good health; charter aircraft operator Air Sunshine hopes they also are elements of a successful business model. Air Sunshine takes passengers and cargo from sunny spot to sunny spot. The charter carrier flies from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, mainly to destinations south, including the Bahamas and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; it also offers service within the Caribbean, covering locations such as Jamaica and Puerto Rico.

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