Air Industries Group

Air Industries Group (NYSE American: AIRI) is a manufacturer of precision assemblies and components for aerospace and defense, with corporate offices in Bay Shore, New York. Its history goes back to 1941 in Connecticut, when it began producing parts for the F4U Corsair. It describes itself as a Tier 1 supplier to OEMs and a prime contractor to the US Department of Defense.

Products

• Landing gear and arresting gear
• Flight controls, actuators and engine mounts
• Aerostructures, drag beams, drag braces and thrust struts
• Jet engine and ground turbine components
• Complex machining, including hard metals and deep-hole drilling
• Ball valves for nuclear submarines

Aircraft and programs

Its website lists products deployed on the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and CH-53K, Lockheed Martin F-35 and F-16, Northrop Grumman E-2D, Boeing F-15 and F-18, and several Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft. Its engine components are used on engines including the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan.

Company facts

• Two manufacturing centers, in New York (complex machining) and Connecticut (turbine engine components)
• More than 200,000 square feet of facilities and about 200 employees, according to its website
• Operating units include Air Industries Machining Corp. and Nassau Tool Works in Bay Shore, and Sterling Engineering Corp. in Barkhamsted, Connecticut
• States that it is unrelated to Air Industries Company of Garden Grove, California, and does not make or distribute standard hardware