ACR Electronics

ACR Electronics designs and makes rescue beacons and survival equipment. Its website describes the company as the foremost development center for emergency beacons, built to save lives. It serves aviation, marine, outdoor and military markets from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Its aviation brand is ARTEX. ARTEX designs and manufactures emergency locator transmitters, battery packs and ELT accessories for general, business, commercial and military aviation. The site says ARTEX products suit every type of fixed wing aircraft and rotorcraft.

The ARTEX ELT 5000 has FAA TSO C126c approval for distress tracking. It is designed to align with the GADSS recommendations of the International Civil Aviation Organization. The company says it sends location data while the aircraft is still in flight.

The ResQLink AIS is a personal locator beacon. It combines automatic identification system alerts, return link service and near field communication in one 406 MHz beacon. The site says it is designed for marine use.

Other products include marine rescue beacons, outdoor beacons, distress lighting and a Bivy GO plan. The company says the plan includes unlimited satellite messaging with no upfront device cost.

The company's aviation portfolio spans brands including ACR, ARTEX, Skytrac, Flight Data Systems, Latitude Technologies, NAL Research, FreeFlight Systems and Bivy. Its range also includes iridium tracking beacons, megaphones and flight data monitoring.

The company says it has made safety and survival products for 65 years. Its website has a dealer locator so customers can find local dealers.

Services

• Emergency locator transmitters
• Personal locator beacons
• Marine rescue beacons
• Aviation search and rescue beacons
• Distress tracking
• Satellite messaging plans
• Battery packs and ELT accessories
• Flight data monitoring
• Distress lighting
• Megaphones