S-TEC Corporation is a

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that was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in

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. It manufactures flight control systems for the General Aviation aftermarket and for a number of

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. S-TEC is the leader in the general aviation

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market for small- and mid-sized planes.

Customers

Genesys Aerosystems has a number of forward-fit autopilot customers including Pilatus, Indonesian Aerospace, Epic Aircraft, and Aviat Aircraft. Their latest autopilot, the S-TEC 3100, has earned Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) on over 100 aircraft models.

History

Meggitt Parker Meggitt (formerly Meggitt plc) is a British international company specialising in components and sub-systems for the aerospace, defence and selected energy markets. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the ...

acquired S-TEC and S-TEC Unmanned Technologies (SUTI) for $24 million in 2000. (

DRS Technologies Leonardo DRS, formerly DRS Technologies, Inc., is a US-based defense contractor. Previously traded on the NYSE, the company was purchased by the Italian firm Finmeccanica (now Leonardo S.p.A.) in October 2008. History Diagnostic/Retrieval Systems ...

purchased the

UAV An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which includes adding a ground-based controller ...

business from Meggitt in 2002 but later closed the Mineral Wells facility.) S-TEC was purchased for $38 million by

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in 2008. In April 2014, Cobham sold Chelton Flight Systems and S-TEC Corporation to

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Products

Avionics

Autopilot An autopilot is a system used to control the path of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without requiring constant manual control by a human operator. Autopilots do not replace human operators. Instead, the autopilot assists the operator' ...

for small- and mid-sized planes * S-TEC 5000 * S-TEC 3100 * S-TEC 2100 * S-TEC IntelliFlight 1950 * S-TEC System 65 * S-TEC System 60-2 * S-TEC System 55X * S-TEC System 40/50 * S-TEC System 30ALT/60PSS * S-TEC System 20/30 * SA-200 Altitude Pre-Selector * ST-360 Altitude Pre-Selector w/Alerter * GPSS * Yaw Damper

Aircraft

S-TEC Sentry The S-TEC Sentry is a reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) (or drone), developed in the United States in the 1980s. Built by S-TEC systems of Texas (now part of DRS Unmanned Technologies), it is a battlefield mini-UAV in roughly the same ...

References

External links

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