Trans-Pacific Aerospace Company, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells aerospace component parts for commercial and military aircraft, space vehicles, power plants and surface and undersea vessels.
The company’s product designs address approximately 3,000 component parts that are utilized in new and used commercial aircraft and military aircraft, space vehicles, power plants and surface and undersea vessels. Its initial products are self-lubricating spherical bearings for commercial aircraft. T...
Trans-Pacific Aerospace Company, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells aerospace component parts for commercial and military aircraft, space vehicles, power plants and surface and undersea vessels.
The company’s product designs address approximately 3,000 component parts that are utilized in new and used commercial aircraft and military aircraft, space vehicles, power plants and surface and undersea vessels. Its initial products are self-lubricating spherical bearings for commercial aircraft. These bearings are integral to the operation of commercial aircraft and help with various flight-critical tasks, including aircraft flight controls and landing gear. The company also intends to manufacture for sale bushings and rod-end bearings. The company has received all regulatory approvals required for the manufacture and sale of its initial line of self-lubricating spherical bearings and bushings and intends to pursue regulatory approval of its initial line of rod-end bearings.
Spherical bearings facilitate proper power transmission from one plane surface to another, provide for articulation of mating parts and reduce friction. Typically, these bearings support a rotating shaft in the bore of the inner ring that must move not only rotationally, as most shafts, and also at angle. Spherical bearings permit freedom of rotation on the two axes that are not parallel with the shaft axis (although some bearings do permit this also). Consisted of one ball and one race, the ball is essentially a sphere with a hole bored through the center and the race is a ring that surrounds the ball. The ends of the sphere extend out past the surface of the race. These bearings are not used in rotational applications, but are used in misalignment applications or in hinging applications.
Spherical bearings act much like an elbow, wrist or knee joint acts in that they allow for slight rotation and severe misalignment. In aircraft they are used on doors, hatches, landing gears, some flight control surfaces, slats, leading edges and trailing edges and on horizontal and vertical stabilizers. They are also used in engines as engine hangers and to open and close stator vanes.
Strategy
The company’s strategy is to leverage its product design and engineering expertise to form business relationships with local partners in markets outside the United States who would provide manufacturing, sales and distribution capabilities, similar to the company’s relationship with its subsidiary, Godfrey (China) Limited. The company’s strategy also includes forming business relationships with local partners in markets outside the United States who would provide sales, marketing, and manufacturing capabilities.
Customers and Market
The company intends to supply bearings for use in commercial, military and private aircraft, naval vessels, power plants, wind turbines and sophisticated commercial applications. The company’s customers include large aerospace companies, such as Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, COMAC, General Electric, Rolls Royce, Pratt & Whitney, Honeywell and various aftermarket channels.
Regulations and Laws
To sell component parts to the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of commercial aircraft in the United States, the company’s products must be approved by an OEM or government agency, such as Naval Air Systems Command. To directly sell component parts to the aftermarket, the company must conform to a separate set of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations providing for an independent parts manufacturing authority (PMA) process, which enables suppliers who conform to FAA PMA requirements to sell products to the aftermarket, irrespective of whether the supplier is an approved supplier to the OEM for original equipment or products.
History
The company was founded in 2007. It was incorporated in the state of Nevada in 2007. The company was formerly known as Gas Salvage Corp. and changed its name to Pinnacle Energy Corp. in 2008. Further, the company changed its name to Trans-Pacific Aerospace Company, Inc. in 2010.