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Sargent Fletcher

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Industry
  
Aerospace

Website
  
www.cobham.com

Number of employees
  
150 (2010)

Key people
  
Ron Winkler, VP

Founded
  
1940

Parent organization
  
Cobham plc

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Headquarters
  
Davenport, Iowa, United States

Sargent fletcher over the decades


Sargent Fletcher is a subsidiary company of Cobham plc. which makes aircraft equipment, including aerial refueling systems, external fuel tanks, and special purpose pods.

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History

Sargent Fletcher was founded in 1940 and bought by Cobham in 1994.

According to a 1991 report the company submitted to regional air quality officials, the company's El Monte chrome-plating plant showed the highest cancer-risk level of any business in the San Gabriel Valley. It was later closed in 2010.

Customers

The KC-130J was supposed to be equipped with Flight Refuelling Ltd's Mk32B-901E hose-and-drogue units, but operational problems meant that the aircraft went into production using equipment from Sargent Fletcher instead.

Aircraft using Sargent Fletcher equipment include:

  • Boeing 707
  • Dassault Mirage 5
  • Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
  • Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon
  • Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor
  • Lockheed C-130 Hercules / HC-130 / KC-130 / MC-130
  • Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
  • McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
  • McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
  • Northrop F-5
  • Panavia Tornado
  • References

    Sargent Fletcher Wikipedia