ACTIVE TENANTS PROFILES

Fiberset

Since 1983, Marie Walker, CEO, has developed Fiberset to become a leader in the fabrication of composite products and components. Serving large and small businesses in various industries throughout the free world and providing high-end, highly specialized custom Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) design, development, prototyping, production, modification and repair services. The use of carbon fiber in today's components is widespread due to the exceptional light weight, strength, stiffness, fatigue and chemical resistance properties of the material. Fiberset is an innovative leader in the design and fabrication of carbon fiber and other FRP components with high-tech finishes. These include aerodynamic composite flight test articles, armor, medical devices, solar and wind energy products, automotive, marine, high profile sports equipment, decorative applications and panels.
www.fiberset.com

Flight Research, Inc.

Flight Research, Inc. is an industry leader in the development of innovative flight test solutions. The company was founded in 1981 in Mojave, California, to meet the growing need for private-sector specialists in flight test design and implementation. A sister company to the National Test Pilot School, FRI has a staff of test pilots and flight test engineers, including designated engineering representatives (DERs) who custom tailor test pilot programs to suit the needs of its clients. Services also include Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM) certification flight testing, weapons development captive-carry and launch, and aircraft certification. FRI can test products or equipment on their own aircraft which range from small general aviation aircraft to helicopters and supersonic fighters, like the Mach 2 SAAB Draken fighter. FRI also offers chase, pace, photographic and telemetry support.

Whether the project is aircraft or weapons related, from systems certification, to STC certification to aircraft type certification, nobody does flight test better than FRI.
www.flightresearch.com

www.flightresearch.com/html/about/contact.shtml

BAE SYSTEMS Flight Systems

A division of BAE SYSTEMS North America, BAE provides military and commercial aircraft modification, aircraft operations, flight test, STC certification services and aerial subscale and full-scale targets. Subsonic and supersonic test aircraft are available, including some of the only civilian-registered F-4 Phantoms in the world.

BAE Systems North America employs 22,000 people in the design, development, integration, manufacture and support of a wide range of advanced aerospace products and electronic systems for government and commercial customers, and Flight Systems is a major business area within BAE Systems North America. Part of the Company's Integrated Defense Solutions unit, Flight Systems employs more than 500 employees at its Mojave, Palmdale, and Victorville, California facilities.
www.baesystems.com

Scaled Composites

Scaled Composites, LLC, is an aerospace and specialty composites development company located in Mojave, California (about 80 miles north of Los Angeles). Founded in 1982 by Burt Rutan, it is perhaps most famous for its historic development, testing and successful back-to-back launches of Spaceship One into space on June 21st, September 29th, and October 4th, 2004. It was the first private manned vehicle ever launched into space and won the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for its achievements. The vehicle now hangs in the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, alongside the Kitty Hawk and above the Apollo 11 command module. That popular achievement was grounded in many years of sophisticated aerospace development. As well as opening the door to private space travel, Scaled Composites also develops everything from microlights to business jets, transports and fighters. The company is also known for its work with unmanned aircraft and associated systems, and has made significant steps in the field of flight simulator development. Scaled Composites maintains a comprehensive data acquisition structure that includes real time air-to-ground telemetry capability. Scaled also has broad experience in air vehicle design, tooling, and manufacturing, specialty composite structure design, analysis and fabrication, and developmental flight test.
www.scaled.com
www.scaled.com/contactus.htm

Flight Test Associates

After a career in flight test spanning 23 years, John Ligon identified the need for more innovative approaches toward flight test research and aerospace development. So in 1996, he created Flight Test Associates, Inc. the full service aerospace company which now has more than 100 employees and operates three hangars at the Mojave site.

FTA conducts business with commercial aviation and general aviation — meaning companies as well as individuals, and friendly foreign governments as well as the Department of Defense. Flight Test Associates also leads the industry in non-OEM FAA certifications, providing complete flight test services, FAA certification services, engineering design, and aircraft modification and maintenance. FTA's engineers, pilots, and technicians offer extensive experience, with a total of 13 Stage 2 and 3 Hushkit certifications, and a combination of 15 group and non-group RVSM programs to their credit. FTA has DER test pilots, DER flight test engineers, and DER engineers in virtually every discipline, as well mechanics and technicians experienced in working with many types of military and civilian aircraft.
www.flttest.com
Contact Robert Rossato: rrossato@flttest.com

National Test Pilot School

National Test Pilot School is the largest civilian test pilot school in the world. A not-for-profit educational institute, it was established in 1981 to meet the flight test training needs of the U.S. domestic and foreign aerospace industries and governments. NTPS is the only civilian school among the seven largest test pilot schools in the world. It trains over 300 students annually and has 46 aircraft, from fighter jets to sailplanes, which are kept in four hangars at Mojave Air and Space Port.

The primary objective of the NTPS is to educate and train test pilots and flight test engineers for careers in the military or in the aerospace industry. The school offers 32 unique courses, ranging from one week, academic-only courses, to the 50 week Professional Course. Beyond that, the school develops custom-tailored curricula and courses to meet unique customer needs not addressed by its standard courses.
www.ntps.edu
ntps@ntps.edu

XCOR Aerospace

Since 1999, XCOR Aerospace has designed and built several generations of safe, reusable, maintainable rocket engines and rocket powered vehicles.

XCOR's list of accomplishments also includes development of the EZ-Rocket, a privately-owned piloted rocket powered aircraft, fitted with two 400 pound-thrust rocket engines in place of a regular engine and propeller. The EZ-Rocket was an operations demonstrator. It flew 26 times, set several unofficial and official records, and is now retired.

XCOR has received the second FAA suborbital rocket-powered vehicle license. The so-called Tea Cart engine, a 15 pound-thrust rocket engine that uses a variety of propellants including nitrous oxide and ethane, is mounted on a small industrial cart, and is used as an educational tool. The Tea Cart engine has repeatedly been fired indoors at conferences and demonstrations. Currently XCOR is developing several rocket engines that will use a variety of non-toxic propellants.
www.xcor.com
webinfo@xcor.com

Rocket Propulsion Engineering Corporation (RP)

RP was founded in January 2000, and has specialized in the design, construction and operation of rocket and jet engine test facilities. Prior to forming RP, its founders built and operated a major rocket engine test facility on the Mojave airport; since founding RP they have completed and operated two others. Together, these facilities had a total of seven engine test stands, the largest of which was capable of testing engines to 100,000 lb thrust.

RP has conducted engine tests on its airport test facilities under contract to private companies, as well as to the Navy, Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Thrust of the largest of these engines was 35,000 lb.

Currently RP is testing a 4500 lb thrust liquid-oxygen/kerosene rocket engine on its recently commissioned company rocket test facility. This engine is a liquid/film-cooled ground test prototype targeted for use as the upper stage of a small launch vehicle, now in development.