Keith Products, a Meggitt group company, announced today that it
has received a contract from Cessna to develop and provide a Vapor
Cycle Cooling System for the Citation CJ4. The Citation CJ4 is
currently under development and is the latest and largest of Cessna's
line of CJ business jets.
Keith Products has a long-established business relationship with
Cessna, a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company. It has been supplying air
conditioning systems for the company's single engine aircraft for
several years.
Terry Holburn, Keith Products Vice President of Sales & Marketing,
said, "The system we are developing for the Citation CJ4 will be
state-of-the-art for business jet aircraft. It will feature the
company's new brushless DC motor technology for both the compressor
drive and the evaporator blowers."
The Citation CJ4 will join the CJ1+, CJ2+ and CJ3, which have
amassed more than 900 airplanes in the fleet with more than 1.3
million flight hours.
EDITOR'S NOTES:
1) Located in Addison, Texas, Keith Products is a leader in vapor
cycle air conditioning systems providing cooling, heating and
ventilation for fixed wing aircraft and helicopters. The company has
the largest product listing of Supplemental Type Certificates for air
conditioning units in the world and is a major supplier to original
equipment manufacturers such as Cessna, Learjet, Hawker Beechcraft,
Sikorsky and Eurocopter.
2) Keith Products is part of the Meggitt Thermal Systems group
which designs and produces environmental control systems and
components including high and low pressure ducting, engine inlet and
wing ice protection, heat exchangers, valves, bleed air leak detection
sensors and controllers.
3) Headquartered in the UK, Meggitt PLC (LSE:MGGT) is an
international group of companies operating in North America, Europe
and Asia. Known for its specialized extreme engineering, Meggitt is a
world leader in the aerospace, defense and electronics industries.
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