Middle River Aircraft Systems has been designing, building and servicing the world's best aircraft for seventy years. Located on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, Middle River Aircraft Systems (MRAS) operates a 1.7 million square feet facility on 180 acres. One of the country's biggest suppliers of aircraft during World War II, today MRAS is dedicated to meeting the aircraft industry's specialized needs. MRAS works with the industry's major airframers and engine producers to design, build and support the structures that complement their products. MRAS is one of the world's leading suppliers of jet engine thrust reversers -- the brakes of a jet engine - providing reversers for both General Electric and Pratt & Whitney, the world's largest aircraft engine manufacturers.The company also produces a variety of specialized structures for major aircraft manufacturers including Boeing and Lockheed Martin for both commercial and military aircraft.In addition to design and manufacturing, MRAS provides technical support and spares services for a variety of aerostructures. Aftermarket and support customers include nearly every major domestic commercial airline and many international airlines. Our support team, combined with our spare parts distribution center, keeps customers flying around the world.

If travel plans take you through the Baltic states, you might want to consider flying airBaltic. Latvia's flag carrier, airBaltic serves more than 25 destinations in Europe from its hubs in Riga and Vilnius. The airline's fleet includes seven Boeing 737-500 and seven Fokker 50 aircrafts. Founded in 1995, airBaltic is 53% owned by the Latvian government. Scandinavian air group SAS AB had owned the other 47% but sold its shares in early 2009 to airBaltic's management for about $25 million. The sale comes after the Latvian government rejected a buyout offer from SAS.

LMI Aerospace, Inc. provides design engineering services, structural assemblies, kits, and components to the aerospace, defense, and technology markets primarily in the United States. It operates in two segments, Aerostructures and Engineering Services. The Aerostructures segment assembles, kits, fabricates, machines, finishes, and integrates close tolerance aluminum and specialty alloy components, and sheet metal products primarily for commercial, corporate, regional, and military aircraft. Its aerospace products include leading edge wing slats and flapskins; winglets and related wing modification kits; fuselage and wing skins; helicopter cabin and aft section components and assemblies; wing panels; door components, assemblies, and floorbeams; thrust reversers and engine nacelles/cowlings; cockpit window frames and landing light lens assemblies; interior components; structural sheet metal and extruded components; auxiliary power units; housings and assemblies for gun turrets; and various components and assemblies.This segment also offers value-added services related to the design, production, assembly, and distribution of aerospace components, as well as delivers kits of products. The Engineering Services segment provides wing/wingbox, fuselage, and empennage design; winglet design; nacelle, engine cowl, and thrust reverser design; weight improvement engineering; aircraft modification engineering; systems design and integration; tool design and fabrication; aviation training system; aviation maintenance engineering; and aviation system software engineering. It produces components and assemblies for laser equipment used by semiconductor and medical equipment manufacturers in the technology industry, as well as provides prototyping and design capabilities to support new product development. The company was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in St. Charles, Missouri.

Ceske Aerolinie (known as Czech Airlines or CSA) is the national carrier of the Czech Republic. Since joining the European Union in 2004, the airline has greatly expanded. It flies to about 70 cities in 40 countries in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, North America, and Asia. It operates a fleet of about 50 Airbus and Boeing jets and is a member of the SkyTeam alliance which also includes Air France-KLM, Aeroflot, and, Delta Air Lines. Founded as Czechoslovak State Airlines in 1923, the Czech Ministry of Finance owns 57% of the airline; other Czech agencies own the rest. However, the government plans to sell the airline in 2009. A group of Czech and Icelandic investors has made a bid to purchase CSA.

Finavia is ready for takeoff in Finland. The state-owned company operates nearly 30 airports throughout country. Finavia and its subsidiaries provide a variety of airport management services such as airport security, maintence, and parking. Its Airpro Oy unit offers passenger as well as airport terminal services; subsidiary Lentoasemakiinteist?yj provides office space for air transport businesses. The company's Avia College also offers aviation training in areas such as air traffic control. In order to keep up with the rise in transit traffic, Finavia is expanding its Helsinki-Vantaa Airport.

SpaceDev, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), is an entrepreneurial space systems company that develops high performance, innovative components and systems that are changing how we get to, explore, and use space. Our products range from spacecraft actuators that power the Mars rovers, to hybrid rocket technologies that powered the first commercial astronaut to space, and from microsatellites controlled by the Internet to Dream Chaser, a winged and piloted orbital commercial spacecraft. SpaceDev products innovate, enable and perform.

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.

VT Group is a leading defence and support services company, providing engineering and other support services to governments and large organisations around the world. Primarily based in the UK and US, we employ over 12,000 people. Over the past five years we have doubled in size, and now have a turnover of £1.05 billion. VT is involved in a wide range of market sectors, including aviation, broadcast, defence, energy, education and training. We provide services from designing, acquiring and then operating and maintaining facilities and assets, through to providing support and training – to everyone from schoolchildren to teachers, apprentices and pilots.

Jet Aviation, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), was founded in Switzerland in 1967 and is one of the leading business aviation services companies in the world. Close to 5,700 employees cater to client needs from over 25 airport facilities throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North and South America. The company provides maintenance, completions and refurbishment, engineering, fixed base operations, along with aircraft management, charter services, aircraft sales and personnel services. Jet Aviation's European and U.S. aircraft management and charter divisions jointly operate a fleet of more than 200 aircraft.

Virgin America is a new, California-based airline that is on a mission to make flying good again — with brand new planes, attractive fares, topnotch service, and a host of fun, innovative amenities that are reinventing domestic air travel. The Virgin America experience is unlike anything else in the domestic skies, with mood-lit cabins, custom-designed leather seats, power outlets, in-flight internet available on every flight, and a video touch-screen and remote control at every seatback that offers guests 25 films, live TV, videogames, seat-to-seat chat, an on-demand food ordering, and much more. The airline’s base of operations is San Francisco International Airport’s ultra-modern International Terminal. Virgin America flies to San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., Seattle, Las Vegas, San Diego, Boston, Orange County and as of Nov. 18, 2009 – South Florida. The airline is one of the fastest growing of all time, with an all-new Airbus A320-family fleet and daily flights from: SFO to LAX, SFO to JFK, SFO to SAN, SFO to IAD, SFO to LAS, LAX to JFK, LAX to IAD, SFO to SEA, SEA to LAX, JFK to LAS, BOS to LAX, BOS to SFO, SFO to SNA and as Nov. 18, 2009 – SFO to FLL and LAX to FLL.

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