Company Overview
An Australian company specialising in the application of composite materials for aerospace and maritime. Airspeed has designed and developed an innovative range of airborne equipment pods for military aircraft that we are the Original Equipment Manufacturer. These pods are employed in a variety of roles with operators including the Royal Australian Air Force.
Airspeed is also very proud to support the MQ-28 Ghost Bat program by providing design support and manufacture of the MQ-28 aircraft radomes.
Concurrently, Airspeed has been playing a pivotal role in the Australian Advanced Rocket Motor Technology Demonstrator (ARMTD) program by designing and subsequently manufacturing the cutting-edge filament-wound, carbon fibre, rocket motor cases.
Another established line of business pertains to the application of composites for maritime structures. As well as working with military forces and government research organisations, we have considerable experience working with large commercial organisations.
Airspeed’s experience in warship composites includes 4500 lightweight floor panels in the combat centres of Australia’s three Air Warfare Destroyers and Replenishment at Sea Stump Masts for Type 26 and Hunter Class Frigate programs.
Our submarine work replaces heavy steel structures with modern, lightweight, resin-infused composite structure to reduce topside weight and restore submarine stability margins. Airspeed also designed and manufactures flank array covers for Colins Class submarine.
Products and Services
Airborne equipment pods, including systems integration, for high profile customers including the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Raytheon Australia and BAE Systems.
Filament-wound submarine pressure vessels and lightweight replacement structures for ASC Pty Ltd and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Filament-wound, carbon fibre, rocket motor cases.
Aircraft and maritime radome design (including Radio Frequency (RF) transmissivity analysis) and manufacture.
Major Projects
Other Projects
- ARMTD – Rocket motor case design and manufacture.
- MQ-28 Ghost Bat – Radomes.
- Project Irukandji – An Airspeed in-house R&D project to design and manufacture a Sovereign supersonic, surface and air launched, target system.
Accreditations
ISO9001:2015
CASA CASR 21M Design Approval for the specialties of structures, systems and equipment (mechanical) and flight analyst (flight test).
CASA Production Certificate for the manufacture of the Airspeed Low Drag Electronics Pod for use on civil registered aircraft such at the Learjet LJ35 and LJ36 aircraft.
Incorporated in the Maintenance Support Networks (MSN) of numerous Tier 1 Australian
Defence companies
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Capabilities
- Manufacturing
- Other Manufacturing
- Professional and Scientific Equipment Manufacturing
- Specialised Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing
- Transport Equipment Manufacturing
Other Capabilities
A design and build company implementing a broad range of technical solutions for our customers using filament-wound, oven or autoclave-cured pre-impregnated (‘pre-preg’) and resin-infused composite materials using carbon, aramid or glass fibres.
All aspects of engineering design pertaining to composite materials including Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), 2D and 3D CAD and Radio Frequency (RF) transmissivity analysis coupled with extensive experience in Test & Evaluation (T&E).
Purpose-built facility at Mawson Lakes Technology Park in South Australia houses unique four-axis filament winding, large-scale autoclave and Out of Autoclave (OOA) capabilities.
