M7 Aerospace LP is an aerospace company with its headquarters on the property of

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in Uptown

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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

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support *

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s manufacturing * Aircraft

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(MRO) * Aerial orthorectified imaging On December 15, 2010, M7 was purchased by the United States subsidiary of the Israeli defense contractor

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. 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

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the previous year. M7 is the original equipment manufacturer for the RC-26Bs. Two years prior, M7 received a $176 million contract from

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to provide maintenance work related to the US Army's fleet of C-26s and C-35s.

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