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5800 Magnolia Avenue
Pennsauken
NJ
08109-1399
USA
[t] 856 663 8120
[f] 856 663 8159
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Airborne Systems, headquartered in Pennsauken, New Jersey designs and manufactures high quality parachute products and provides world class engineering services. Airborne Systems brings to the market and its customers a history and legacy that embraces four of the world’s leading parachute companies, combining the resources of GQ Parachutes, Irvin Aerospace, Para-Flite, and Aircraft Materials (AML). Today, Airborne Systems is comprised of these brands. No other company has the combined resources of Airborne Systems and, for almost a century, compiled a proven track record of precedent setting milestones that demonstrate scope of capability, quality of product and successful performance.Airborne Systems is a global company, supporting customers around the world. Airborne Systems North American Headquarters is located in Pennsauken, New Jersey. Three manufacturing facilities in North America are located in Pennsauken, New Jersey, Santa Ana, CA and Bellville, Ontario, Canada. Airborne Systems European Headquarters and manufacturing facilities are located in Llangeinor, South Wales, UK. |
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Airborne Systems, a world leader in parachute design and manufacturing, announced they successfully completed a test drop of a precision guided cargo delivery system capable of carrying 42,000 pounds under a single ram-air parachute. |
29 September 2008 |
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Airborne Systems North America (ASNA) and ILC Dover have signed an agreement to work together on the Orion airbag landing and floatation system. A new study initiated by NASA is underway for a 'singular' landing system that works for land and water landings and protects the Astronauts in contingency landing situations. ILC and Airborne have combined their engineering and analysis teams and their Orion Gen-2 airbag designs for the new study. |
17 March 2008 |
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Airborne Systems, which has combined the world's leading parachute brands specializing in aerial delivery, rescue and survival equipment, and engineering services announced that the DragonFly system has been selected as the 10,000 lb Joint Precision Aerial Delivery System (JPADS) platform for the U.S. Army. DragonFly is a precision guided parachute delivery system that uses Global Positioning System (GPS) signals to steer up to 10,000 lbs of cargo; dropping supplies to troops in remote or dangerous areas. |
23 January 2008 |
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Airborne Systems, which has combined the world's leading parachute brands specializing in aerial delivery, rescue and survival equipment, and engineering services announced that its Space and Recovery Systems Engineering team (formerly Irvin Aerospace) has been selected to provide Recovery Systems for Space Exploration Technologies Corp's. (SpaceX) Falcon 9/Dragon system. These systems will support government and commercial launch operations and the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. |
31 August 2007 |
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Airborne Systems is at the forefront of innovation in the development of GPS (Global Positioning System) to 'steer' the cargo to the target location and has developed a series of precision cargo delivery systems for use with varying weights and sizes of cargo load. The system can be controlled from the ground or from the air and can be used to deliver personnel or supplies to remote regions such as the mountains of Afghanistan, or bring humanitarian relief to dangerous situations like the crisis in Darfur. |
31 August 2007 |
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