All American Racers Inc

All American Racers, called AAR, is a maker of advanced composite and metal structures for the defense and space industries. It is also listed on its site as APEX SDS, Santa Ana. The address is 2334 South Broadway, Santa Ana, California, and the phone number is 714 540 1771.

The company began in 1965 when Dan Gurney and Carroll Shelby set up a race car company with backing from Goodyear. The site says it later moved from designing race cars to making composite and metal structures. In September 2021 Charger Investment Partners bought the company. Other APEX sites are in Huntington Beach, California, Hayden, Idaho and Gainesville, Florida. A news item mentions the Oak Engineering acquisition.

The site groups the work into space, defense, communications and system components. Space covers launch vehicles and satellites. Defense covers uncrewed systems, fixed wing crewed aircraft, rotorcraft, weapon systems, land vehicles and marine platforms. Components include ducting and inlets, flight surfaces, flight structures, composite overwrapped pressure vessels, interiors, helmet visors, landing systems and driveshafts.

Services include engineering, tool design, hand lay up, filament winding, metal fabrication, assembly and testing, CNC machining, 3D printing and vacuum forming. The company says its Southern California factory has a composite and materials department, an engineering design office, a machine shop, a metal fabrication area and assembly and test centers.

The text says its work ranges from small hand launched drones to large launch vehicle landing leg structures. The site has request for quote and request for information pages.