M7 Aerospace LP is an aerospace company with its headquarters on the property of
San Antonio International Airport in Uptown
San Antonio
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,
Texas
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, United States.
M7 is the successor organization to
Fairchild Dornier Aviation, having bought much of that firm's assets out of bankruptcy. M7 occupies the manufacturing and support facility formerly operated by Fairchild-Dornier.
M7 Aerospace has five distinct business units:
* Aircraft Parts and Product Support
* Government
logistics
Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the Consumption (economics), point of consumption according to the ...
support
*
Aerostructure
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s manufacturing
* Aircraft
Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul
Aircraft maintenance is the performance of tasks required to ensure the continuing airworthiness of an aircraft or aircraft part, including overhaul, inspection, replacement, defect rectification, and the embodiment of modifications, compliance ...
(MRO)
* Aerial
orthorectified imaging
On December 15, 2010, M7 was purchased by the United States subsidiary of the Israeli defense contractor
Elbit Systems
Elbit Systems Ltd. is an Israel-based international military technology company and defense contractor. Founded in 1966 by Elron, Elbit Systems is the primary provider of the Israeli military's land-based equipment and unmanned aerial v ...
. The price of M7's acquisition was $85 million in cash.
In 2019, M7 received a $22 million contract from Support Systems Associates, Inc. (SSAI) to provide avionics upgrades to the
US Air National Guard's
RC-26B aircraft, with SSAI having received a contract to upgrade the same systems for $31 million from the
United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government charged with coordinating and superv ...
the previous year. M7 is the original equipment manufacturer for the RC-26Bs. Two years prior, M7 received a $176 million contract from
DynCorp
DynCorp International Inc. (), was an American private military contractor. Starting as an aviation company, the company also provided flight operations support, training and mentoring, international development, intelligence training and suppor ...
to provide maintenance work related to the US Army's fleet of C-26s and
C-35s.
References
External links
Official site
2010 mergers and acquisitions
Aerospace companies of the United States
Defense companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in San Antonio
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