January 30, 2012
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida- Cobham Beacon Solutions today
announced they have received 24 Technical Standard Order (TSO)
authorizations from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for
the Artex Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) product line.
The FAA has allowed transition of the previous approval from Cobham
Avionics in Prescott, AZ to ACR Electronics in Fort Lauderdale FL
under the new Part 21 Transfer Process as the two Business Units
are combined.
This TSO authorization means that Artex ELT Products are now
under the design control and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) of
the Fort Lauderdale office which also has a long history of
controlled quality, precision designing and testing, and lean
manufacturing of Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons,
Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) and survival lighting products for
the marine, outdoor, aviation and military markets. Fort
Lauderdale will now be responsible for both design and the
production process of the 24 TSO approvals for the Artex ELT
product line including the ME-406, C-406, B-406, G-406 and SLB406
line of Emergency Locator Transmitters as well as legacy battery
packs, remote switches and cable assemblies.
"These transfers are the result of a well-coordinated effort
between our business units and two regional offices of the FAA,"
said Michael Wilkerson, General Manager. "With the addition of
Artex ELTs, Cobham Beacon Solutions has completed the integration
of three product families into one business unit. Our customers and
suppliers will benefit from this concentration of engineering,
production, quality, sales and support capabilities."
Artex designs and manufactures a wide array of Emergency
Locator Transmitters (ELTs) for General, Business, Commercial and
Military Aviation applications as well as battery packs and ELT
accessories. The business of Artex is global and customers range
from the individual private pilot to the world's largest airframe
manufacturers, airlines and governments. Fort Lauderdale will
continue to support these products and maintain responsibility for
all records, continued airworthiness, and service of previously
produced products.
About Cobham:
Cobham specializes in meeting the insatiable demand for data,
connectivity and bandwidth in defense, security and commercial
environments. Offering a technically diverse and innovative range
of technologies and services, the Group protects lives and
livelihoods, responding to customer needs with agility that
differentiates it. The most important thing we build is trust.
Employing more than 10,000 people on five continents, the Group has
customers and partners in over 100 countries.
About Cobham Commercial Systems
Cobham Commercial Systems is a leading provider of integrated
avionics systems, emergency locator systems and radar and missile
electronics for military and civil customers. Cobham's
avionics systems can be offered individually or integrated to
provide an entire cockpit. Its synthetic vision Electronic
Flight Instrument System (EFIS) revolutionised safety in low-level
flight operations and is now approved on more than 700 aircraft and
helicopter models. Cobham's new Helicopter Stability
Augmentation System (HeliSAS) adds to its extensive range of fixed
wing auto-pilot solutions and brings added safety within the reach
of a host of operators for whom such systems were previously too
expensive and heavy.
Cobham Commercial Systems is also an acknowledged expert in
Emergency Locator Transmitter and Personal Locator Beacon
technologies, from personal units to Original Equipment
Manufacturer mounted systems on airliners and helicopters.
Its radar and missile RF front end electronics are part of many
radars, missiles, and space and commercial radar systems as well as
leading edge Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA)
solutions.
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