Equip'Aero helps keep planes flying high and mighty over France and other destinations. The company is an original equipment manufacturer of aircraft components, such as valves and actuators, and also provides repair, maintenance, and overhaul services on pneumatic, hydraulic, and fuel parts. Equip'Aero's customers include commercial and commuter airlines, airframe and engine manufacturers, and aerospace/defense parts makers, including Goodrich, Honeywell, Meggitt, and Pratt & Whitney. Equip'Aero owns and operates three subsidiaries. It was founded in 1993 by president Jean-Pierre Thulliez.

Icelandair Group, listed on the NASDAQ OMX Iceland as ICEAIR, is a holding company with 12 independent subsidiaries focused on the airline and tourism sectors. The Group has two main business areas, Scheduled Airline and Tourism and Capacity Solutions. Iceland is the focus of Scheduled Airline and Tourism, with the international airline Icelandair, Icelandair Ground Services (IGS) Icelandair Cargo, Iceland Travel, Air Iceland and Icelandair Hotels. Capacity Solutions offer broad worldwide aviation services with Loftleidir Icelandic, Travel Service, SmartLynx, Bluebird Cargo, and Icelease. The Group's financial services are handled by Fjarvakur.Icelandair Group owns and operates profitable and dynamic travel and transport companies delivering safe, reliable and convenient services. We create value for our customers, employees and shareholders by focusing on customer needs, efficient service delivery and unique and superior value propositions. We invest in strong, profitable travel and transport companies with high potential for growth and future value creation.

The company specializes in repairing and maintaining jet engines and components. The company specializes on a single family of engine model, Pratt & Whitney's JT8D. In fact, it maintains some $20 million worth of JT8D parts on hand in order to guarantee availability. In addition to performing heavy maintenance, Aerothrust leases and sells engines. Customers of AeroThrust include commercial airlines and military contractors. Investment firm Windstar Capital, an aerospace industry specialist, owns AeroThrust.

A member of the royal family of European airlines, British Airways (BA) serves about 150 destinations in some 75 countries from hubs at London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The carrier operates a fleet of more than 240 aircraft, consisting mainly of Airbus and Boeing jets. BA extends its network to more than 500 destinations via code-sharing relationships, chiefly with AMR's American Airlines and other members of the Oneworld global marketing alliance, such as Iberia and Qantas. Among Europe's flag carriers, BA is outranked only by the combined Air France-KLM and by Lufthansa. Since mid-2008, BA has been engaged in merger talks with Iberia, Spain's #1 airline.

Derichebourg (formerly Penauille Polyservices) is happy to do the dirty work. The company is one of Europe's leading providers of cleaning and maintenance services for such clients as banks, department stores, and nuclear and chemical plants. It processes scrap metal at facilities in Europe and the US. In addition, Derichebourg owns Servisair, which offers airlines and airports worldwide such ground handling services as ticketing, maintenance, cleaning, and security. Derichebourg took its current form in 2007 when Penauille Polyservices acquired its former parent, CFF Recycling, then adopted the Derichebourg name for the combined company.

Sino-Global Shipping America, Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides shipping agency services primarily in the People's Republic of China. The company offers its services for foreign ships coming to Chinese ports. It provides general shipping agency services in 76 ports. The company provides shipping services for bulk and break-bulk general cargo, and vehicle transport, as well as for raw materials, such as crude oil, oil products, iron, manganese, and other metal ores. It also provides various additional services, including preparing documents, husbanding vessels, working through customs issues, coordinating matters with port authorities, overseeing and settling cargo claims, tracking shipments, recommending trucking, warehousing, and complementary services. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Flushing, New York.

Raytheon Solipsys, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Raytheon Company, is an industry leader in the development of integrated Command and Control (C2) Network-Centric solutions for the Domestic and International DoD and Homeland Security. Through proven systems and software engineering practices, built on the invention and application of innovative technologies, we deliver the C2 infrastructure necessary to effectively control security/military forces in any environment. Our reliable solutions assure information superiority, increased shared awareness, deep sensor reach, aircraft control, air defense, disaster management, and time-critical decision making. Solipsys' staff has received industry-wide recognition in the diverse areas of sensor automation, information synthesis, networking and communications, and visualization. Our expertise is reflected in the success of our products. In use by the Department of Homeland Security, all four United States military services, International DoD, as well as many of our industry partners, our Tactical Display Framework (TDF) Java-certified visualization tool and Multi Source Correlator Tracker (MSCT) software applications have raised the bar of performance for information synthesis and display.

Northstar’s proven world-class expertise in advanced sonar technology bodes well for the company’s prospects in many industries. The three main categories are Advanced Sonar Technology, Electronic Contract Manufacturing and Systems Integration.Northstar designs and manufactures sonar detection systems for the HOMELAND SECURITY and military defense industries. These systems detect and track combat divers to protect aircraft carriers, ships, harbors and ports.We use our world-class sonar and marine engineering expertise to develop the sonar hardware and the mechanical housings for the underwater components of these systems.The recent international focus on HOMELAND SECURITY and anti-terrorism will provide dividends for Northstar’s shareholders.

PASSUR Aerospace, Inc. offer airlines, airports, corporate aviation and government agencies subscription-based information and decision support solutions that provide unique information and analytics – not otherwise available –- to help manage critical decision areas.PASSUR solutions are powered by our unique network of company-owned passive radars – the largest private radar network in the world covering over 140 airports. Each radar feeds the PASSUR database of live and archived information, which aggregates and vets aviation data from a multitude of sources, creating the definitive resource of live aviation information.PASSUR provide services to more than 50 airports, including 8 of the top 10; dozens of airlines, including 7 of the top 10; and a wide range of FBOs and fuel providers, including some of the largest corporate aviation organizations in the world. As a result, we were recently named a Connecticut Fast 50 technology company for the fourth year.

Qantas Airways, Australia's #1 airline, flies to about 60 destinations at home and another 85-plus (including some served by code-sharing partners) in about 35 countries. (Code-sharing enables carriers to sell tickets on one another's flights and thus extend their networks.) Its airline operations include regional carrier QantasLink, as well as low-fare carrier Jetstar, both of which operate in Australia and elsewhere in the Asia/Pacific region. Overall, the Qantas fleet includes about 230 aircraft. Qantas is part of the Oneworld global airline alliance, which is led by British Airways (BA) and American Airlines. In late 2008 Qantas and BA began merger talks, but an agreement could not be reached.

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