ASTRONAUTICS SELLS ELECTROMECHANICAL PRODUCT LINE TO EXTANT AEROSPACE
May 23, 2022 at 08:58 am EDT
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OAK CREEK, WISCONSIN - Astronautics Corporation of America announces the sale of its legacy electromechanical product line to Extant Aerospace. The agreement includes production, repairs, and spares activities associated with the company's electromechanical horizontal situation indicator (HSI), attitude director indicator (ADI), and bearing distance heading indicator (BDHI) products.
The sale is effective immediately and ongoing transfer activities that will transition the product line from Astronautics to Extant will continue throughout summer 2022.
Customers seeking information regarding production, repairs, or spares for any of the listed products should continue to work directly with Astronautics' sales operations team during the early stages of the transition. Astronautics and Extant are working together closely to ensure customers are fully supported during the product line transition.
'Customers are always at the forefront of Astronautics' decision making. The decision to sell this product line, which created numerous long-standing customer relationships and was foundational to Astronautics' early success, was carefully considered,' said Astronautics' Chief Executive Officer Dr. Ronald Zelazo. 'We firmly believe that Extant, with its advanced technical, material, and customer service resources, will support our customers with high-quality, aftermarket avionics solutions that will keep their aircraft maintained and operational.'
About Astronautics
Astronautics Corporation of America, headquartered in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, is a global leader in the design, development, and manufacture of secure avionics equipment and systems for the commercial and military aerospace industry. Key product areas include electronic primary flight and engine displays, connected aircraft and cyber solutions, electronic flight bags, and certified servers for airborne applications. Services include avionics system integration and custom software for critical applications. Since its founding in 1959, Astronautics has been providing trusted, reliable, and tailored solutions to help clients achieve mission success. Astronautics is the parent company of Kearfott Corporation, headquartered in Woodland Park, New Jersey. For more: www.astronautics.com.
About Extant Aerospace
Extant Aerospace (www.extantaerospace.com), a wholly-owned TransDigm Group Incorporated (NYSE:TDG), with headquarters in Melbourne, FL, specializes in supporting Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) with product licensing, obsolescence management and reengineering, lifecycle sustainment, and counterfeit prevention services for aging, non-core electronics, avionics and electromechanical products used in various, military, business and general aviation, and commercial airline applications. Extant's programs and resources provide a high-quality solution to the challenges that often accompany the continuing aftermarket support of these systems and components and enable OEMs to focus their resources on more current products and new product research and development. Extant is well positioned with both the technical expertise and capital resources needed to provide OEMs with immediate value for non-core assets, a timely and successful product line transition, and a continuing high level of aftermarket customer service and support.
TransDigm Group Inc. specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of aerospace systems and components. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- engine components and control systems (50.3%): mechanical and electromechanical actuators and control systems, pumps and engine control systems, power regulators, ignition systems, thermal management systems, fluid management systems, batteries and power supply systems, motion sensors, data recording, analysis and processing systems, etc. The group also offers winches, lifting systems and cargo handling systems;
- cabin systems and equipment (47%): cockpit safety components and systems, locking systems and devices, connectors, audio control systems, specialized sanitary equipment, seat belts and safety devices, interior fittings (seats, display systems, on-board entertainment systems, etc.) lighting systems, parachutes, freight delivery systems, etc. ;
- other (2.7%): non-aeronautical systems and equipment.
At the end of September 2023, the group operated approximately 100 production sites worldwide.
The United States accounts for 64.8% of net sales.
TRANSDIGM GROUP INC. 
