Honeywell Aerospace is a major provider of aircraft engines, APUs, avionics, and other systems in the aerospace industry. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, it is a division of the Honeywell International conglomerate.
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[edit] Aircraft engines
Honeywell Aerospace's turbine engine business can be traced back primarily to two companies: Garrett AiResearch and Lycoming Engines turbine division. Garrett AiResearch was founded in 1936 by Cliff Garrett. The turbine engine division became known as the Garrett Turbine Engine Company after the Signal Oil acquisition in 1968. It became the Garrett Engine Division of AlliedSignal from 1985, when Signal merged with Allied Corp. to become AlliedSignal. In 1994, AlliedSignal acquired the Lycoming Turbine Engine Division of Textron, merging it with Garrett Engine to become the AlliedSignal Engines Division of AlliedSignal Aerospace Company.[1] The company became part of Honeywell Aerospace in 1999.
[edit] Avionics
AlliedSignal bought (and merged with) Honeywell, Inc. in 1999, and adopted the name Honeywell International. That company (Honeywell, Inc.), already included most of the avionics divisions of the old Sperry Flight Systems, which it had acquired in 1986. Those Sperry avionics divisions were bought by Honeywell in 1986 from a company (Unisys, whose name had previously been Burroughs) that had bought all of Sperry Corporation earlier that year (1986).
Those erstwhile Sperry avionics divisions produced a wide array of airborne systems. The other (pre-1986) divisions of Honeywell, Inc., also produced some avionics products, too -- such as IRS's (Inertial Reference Systems) and EGPWS (Enhanced Ground proximity warning systems).
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[edit] Aircraft engines
- Turboprops/Turboshafts
- Turbofans
[edit] Avionics
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