Hexatron Engineering Co., Inc. was an American

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and aircraft parts manufacturer based in

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. The company, which was founded in 1982 by Cy Williams, specialized in the design and manufacture of

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aircraft crew seats and also produced an

design for

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and the American

light-sport aircraft A light-sport aircraft (LSA), or light sport aircraft, is a fairly new category of small, lightweight aircraft that are simple to fly. LSAs tend to be heavier and more sophisticated than ultralight (aka "microlight") aircraft, but LSA restrictio ...

categories.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', pages 238-241. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X The company built cabin attendant and crew seats for the

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and

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aircraft and could modify or manufacture aircraft seats, in accordance with the

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s. The company had also done design and fabrication work for

Aerojet Aerojet was an American rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer based primarily in Rancho Cordova, California, with divisions in Redmond, Washington, Orange and Gainesville in Virginia, and Camden, Arkansas. Aerojet was owned by GenCorp. ...

Hercules Inc. Hercules, Inc. was a chemical and munitions manufacturing company based in Wilmington, Delaware, United States, incorporated in 1912 as the Hercules Powder Company following the breakup of the DuPont explosives monopoly by the U.S. Circuit ...

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Stanley Aviation Stanley Aviation is an aerospace company started by Robert M Stanley, the aviation pioneer, in Buffalo, New York in 1948. The company has since acquired several other companies and has been most recently acquired by Eaton Corporation. Stanley is ...

Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globall ...

and

Thiokol Thiokol (variously Thiokol Chemical Corporation(/Company), Morton Thiokol Inc., Cordant Technologies Inc., Thiokol Propulsion, AIC Group, ATK Thiokol, ATK Launch Systems Group; finally Orbital ATK before becoming part of Northrop Grumman) was an ...

. In 1995 the company decided to develop a line of aircraft engines and designed the

Hexadyne P60 The Hexadyne P60 is an American aircraft engine, designed and produced by Hexatron Engineering of Salt Lake City, Utah for use in ultralight and homebuilt aircraft.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation ...

, a two-cylinder, horizontally-opposed

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powerplant. It is no longer in production.

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Aircraft engine manufacturers of the United States Ultralight aircraft Homebuilt aircraft