Composites

The Composites Division boasts a broad product range of both structural and non-structural components and assemblies such as wing and fuselage fairings, covers and panels, nose and tail cone assemblies, floors, interior panels and fittings, ducting etc.

Spares and new build requirements for a variety of civil and military customers are successfully combined in this state-of-the-art facility.

Principal aircraft programmes:

• Airbus A320
• BAE SYSTEMS Hawk
• Hawker 987 Series
• Global Express 5000
• Westland Lynx EH101
• F-35 Lightning II (JSF)

Kevlar, glass and carbon fibre pre-pregs, wet lay-up and metal-to-metal bonding.

Design and manufacture of composites tooling; project management of large tooling programmes.

Fully equipped with water-cooled autoclave for improved cycle times, ovens, clean rooms, machining facilities and cold stores.

Composite Products

A320 Family/ A330/A340

• Repairs to various components including undercarriage doors and wing panels

Hawk and T45

• Heat exchanger duct assemblies
• Cockpit air ducting

Westland Lynx

• Fuel cell panels
  FLIRR floor

Hawker 987 / U125A

• Interior and exterior panels
• Fairings, Radomes, FLIRR
• Nose Cone
• Metal-to-metal bonding of empennage components
• Air conditioning ducting (wet lay-up and pre-preg)
• Tail end fin component assemblies
• Tail cone, Ventral Fin,
• Ventral Fairing

Bombardier Global Express

• Various air conditioning ducts

Boeing V22

• Various air conditioning ducts

EH101 / Westland Lynx

• Various metal-to-metal bonded components and various composite fairings and ducts