Borg Warner Industrial Product (BWIP) Changes Hands

Mid-America Aerotech, a North Dakota-based provider of aircraft repair and maintenance services, has completed the Intellectual Property (IP) purchase of select hydraulic and pneumatic aerospace products from Moog Inc., the East Aurora, New York-based designer and manufacturer of electric, electro-hydraulic, and hydraulic motion, controls and systems for applications in the aerospace, defense, industrial, and medical sectors.

Known as Borg Warner Intellectual Property (BWIP), the entity purchased by Mid-America Aerotech encompasses a wide variety of aircraft architectures the likes of flight-control, landing-gear, and fuel systems, and the design, spare components provision, and repair thereof. Aircraft supported by BWIP include: Lockheed-Martin’s P-3 Orion, C-130 Hercules, U-2 Dragon Lady; Northrop-Grumman’s B-2 Spirit and E-2C Hawkeye, and Boeing’s B-52 Stratofortress. Mid-America Aerotech plans to manufacture and support the antecedent products in its Fargo, North Dakota facility.

In addition to occasioning the expansion of Mid-America Aerotech’s portfolio of products and services, the acquisition—as well as the partnership with Moog implicit therein—positions Mid-America Aerotech among the world’s leading suppliers of aerospace hydraulic and pneumatic components.

For its own part, Moog Inc. benefits insofar as the described systems will be serviced, henceforth, by a reliable and reputable, dual-certified (AS9100D/AS9110C) FAA Part 145 Repair Station authorized to perform work in the E.U.

Mid-America Aerotech, by dint of the aforementioned credentials and authorizations, offers complete Maintenance Repair & Overhaul (MRO), manufacturing, engineering, and cold-spray additive manufacturing services. Subject offerings encompass a veritable galaxy of aerospace hydraulic and pneumatic components, and manufacturing and repair services germane to such.

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