10th May 2007 18:00
Keith Products, a Meggitt group company, announced today that ithas received a contract from Cessna to develop and provide a VaporCycle Cooling System for the Citation CJ4. The Citation CJ4 iscurrently under development and is the latest and largest of Cessna'sline of CJ business jets. £ Keith Products has a long-established business relationship withCessna, a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company. It has been supplying airconditioning systems for the company's single engine aircraft forseveral years. £ Terry Holburn, Keith Products Vice President of Sales & Marketing,said, "The system we are developing for the Citation CJ4 will bestate-of-the-art for business jet aircraft. It will feature thecompany's new brushless DC motor technology for both the compressordrive and the evaporator blowers." £ The Citation CJ4 will join the CJ1+, CJ2+ and CJ3, which haveamassed more than 900 airplanes in the fleet with more than 1.3million flight hours. £ EDITOR'S NOTES: £ 1) Located in Addison, Texas, Keith Products is a leader in vaporcycle air conditioning systems providing cooling, heating andventilation for fixed wing aircraft and helicopters. The company hasthe largest product listing of Supplemental Type Certificates for airconditioning units in the world and is a major supplier to originalequipment manufacturers such as Cessna, Learjet, Hawker Beechcraft,Sikorsky and Eurocopter. £ 2) Keith Products is part of the Meggitt Thermal Systems groupwhich designs and produces environmental control systems andcomponents including high and low pressure ducting, engine inlet andwing ice protection, heat exchangers, valves, bleed air leak detectionsensors and controllers. £ 3) Headquartered in the UK, Meggitt PLC (LSE:MGGT) is aninternational group of companies operating in North America, Europeand Asia. Known for its specialized extreme engineering, Meggitt is aworld leader in the aerospace, defense and electronics industries. Copyright Business Wire 2007Related Shares:
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