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Collins Aerospace Case Study

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US-owned Collins Aerospace is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defence industry.
Collins Aerospace Wolverhampton West Midlands.

Headquartered in North Carolina, the firm specialises in aerostructures, avionics, interiors, mechanical systems, mission systems and power controls for international customers across the commercial, regional, business aviation and military sectors. The company also offers services in the airport management, marine and rail industries.

Its global headquarters for manufacturing actuation systems is based in Wolverhampton, and employs more than 1,300 people from the West Midlands’ community of engineering expertise. The company supplies some of the biggest names in the industry from its base in the city.

Created in 2018 by bringing together UTC Aerospace Systems and Rockwell Collins, Collins Aerospace has a legacy of delivering life-changing moments fhttps://www.investwestmidlands.com/why-west-midlands/or the aerospace and defence industries, and indeed the world.

From the propeller that powered Amelia Earhart’s nonstop flight across the Atlantic to the radio technology used to broadcast Neil Armstrong’s famous “one small step” speech during the Apollo 11 moon landing, Collins Aerospace continues to redefine aerospace with innovative thinking and technologies.

In 2020 the company joined the newly formed Raytheon Technologies Corporation family of businesses – a merger of the Raytheon Company and United Technologies. With a 195,000-strong workforce worldwide, the combined company expects to introduce breakthrough technologies at an accelerated pace across high-value areas, such as hypersonics, directed energy, avionics and cybersecurity.