Beagle Aircraft

Composites

Beagle Aircraft’s NADCAP and ISO9001 approved composites facility offer a number of key processes to enable us to accurately meet our customer’s requirements. Our 20,000 Sq. Ft dedicated composite manufacturing facility, supplies advanced composites for Aerospace, Defence and Marine customers.Our core products and processes include:

• Clean room and non-clean room lay-up
• Prototype and production of components and assemblies
• Autoclave and non-autoclave processing of pre-preg
• Honeycomb & foam cored structures
• Monolithic pre-preg components
• Resin infusion & RTM manufacture
• Wet lay-up
• Composite repairs and through life support
• Carbon fibre lacquering and paint finishing
• Complex assembly and component integration
• NADCAP NDT testing
• Project management

As well as our core products and processes, we also hold a number of extensive capabilities within our composites division.These are as follows:

• Class 8 ISO Accredited Clean Rooms
• CATIA V5 3D CAD design software
• CNC Machining centres
• Multiple Autoclaves – largest 3.5m (D) / 8.5m (L)
• Range of ovens – largest 9m (L) x 6m (W) x 3m (H)
• Blackman and White conveyorised Pre-Preg Cutting Machine – 2.5m (W) x 6m (L)
• Multihead Laser Ply Positioning Systems
• CMM Machine
• Multiple Spray Bake and Curing Ovens – up to 9m (L) x 6m (W) x 3m (H)
• Controlled freezer storage
• NADCAP NDT Facilities