Company Overview

At DART Aerospace, we strive to become the leader in aerospace mission-critical equipment, related services and replacement parts and tools. We define the future of safety- enhancing and cost-effective equipment in an evolving aerospace industry.

We are a passionate team of professionals who design, certify, manufacture and service aerospace mission-critical equipment of the highest value for aircraft OEMs and operators. We deliver operational excellence by offering superior customer experience while partnering with OEMs, operators and maintenance providers. We offer solutions that increase safety and help operators stay mission ready.

Designing and manufacturing parts and systems for helicopters and commercial airliners is part of DART's DNA

Our Global Centers of Excellence have been designing, manufacturing, installing, testing, inspecting, repairing, and certifying products for over 50 years.

Throughout the years, DART has become the world’s largest rotorcraft accessories provider, offering the most comprehensive and diversified product portfolio in the industry.

Our qualified workforce of over 600 employees is committed to providing the industry with quality service while maintaining great turnaround times.

We provide our customers with repair and overhaul capabilities for Emergency Float Equipment and External Load Equipment. We even exceed FAA and EASA requirements.

DART's dedicated customer support team specializes in responding to any technical inquiries.

DART knows the optimal path to achieve certification. DART has received over 1,500 Supplemental Type Certificates (STC) since 1975 and issues on average 50 new STCs annually. With vast experience through a wide range of products, DART certifies primary structures as well as interior & exterior, minor & major modifications.

Successfully collaborating with over 10 local and foreign authorities such as TCCA, FAA and EASA, DART has an extensive certification portfolio to meet your aircraft needs.

With 3 full-time delegated engineers (DE), DART performs in-house capabilities such as:

• Building certification & testing plans, qualification & stress reports, finite elements & computational fluid dynamics analysis
• Certification and technical documentation
• Testing capabilities including flight tests, drop tests, flammability & structural testing, bird strike & functional testing.

Partnering with customers to develop new solutions is at the heart of the DART Aerospace philosophy.

DART has extensive experience partnering with helicopter OEMs to design, develop and supply mission critical components. Major helicopters OEMs such as Airbus, Bell, Leonardo and Sikorsky, have trusted DART to collaborate on systems such as flotation, life rafts, landing gear and cable cutters. In many cases, the OEM requests DART to support schedule-sensitive helicopter deliveries where product certification is not just required by FAA or EASA, but where a foreign validation is also mandatory and DART’s certification expertise is the critical enabler to meet the deadline.

In partnership with the OEM, DART has worked both Type Certificate (TC) solutions and Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) solutions. In certain cases, an OEM may elect to engage DART on an STC project baseline because the certification path is much shorter than developing as a TC project, which would require OEM resources which may not be readily available.

To date, DART has designed and developed approximately 20 systems in collaboration with helicopter OEMs. We are always ready to consider both new OEM project ideas and structure win-win OEM partnerships.