Aircraft Batteries

Concorde Lead Acid Batteries

Concorde Battery Corporation was founded in 1978 to develop and manufacture aircraft batteries for the United States Military. Since that time Concorde has provided the Department of Defense with over 90% of all their lead-acid aircraft batteries as well as many batteries for shipboard use. Over 150,000 military aircraft batteries, manufactured to rigid quality requirements, have been delivered to date. Concorde Aircraft batteries are manufactured to the requirements of Mil-B-8565 and Mil-B-83769 and are QPL listed. Concorde has qualified more types under Mil-B-8565 than any other manufacturer and is the only manufacturer qualified to produce all types under Mil-B-83769. Concorde aircraft batteries have been adopted by the Canadian, British, Australian, and Italian air forces - among others.

The valve regulated aircraft battery provides the customer with a no maintenance, non-spillable, high reliability product designed to replace existing nickel-cadmium and lead-acid designs. They have been adopted in aircraft such as the Learjet, Citation, F/A-18, F-117A (Stealth), and C-130. In many of these applications, the VRB is a direct replacement for maintenance intensive, expensive nickel-cadmium batteries. The valve regulated design offers the user a tremendous improvement over flooded lead-acid in the areas of vibration resistance, shock resistance, and cold temperature performance.

Gill Lead Acid Batteries

The Gill Electric Company was founded by Mr. Lawrence Gill in 1920, in Redlands, Califomia, where the factory remains today. Since that time Gill has become the OEM "original equipment battery" for Raytheon, Cessna, LearJet, Mooney, Piper, Ayres, Airtractor, Maule, Schweizer and others in the aviation industry and Gill Batteries continues to be the industry's choice for quality battery products.

Teledyne Industries aquired the Gill Electric Company in 1966 and continued producing high-quality batteries. Gill's engineers were called upon to produce a high performance, high-rate discharge battery to handle jet engines. Gill Batteries 600 series batteries have become a standard in the industry. Gill's line of "Sealed Recombinant' batteries are now available in the most popular sizes and is FAA approved. Development continues to provide one of the most modem and reliable batteries in the industry. Gill Batteries recombinant battery has become original equipment in a growing list of airframe manufacturers.

HAWKER Sealed Lead Acid Batteries

Hawker Batteries, now owned by Enersys, has been a leading name in aircraft batteries for over 35 years. Collaboration between Varley and Gates Energy Products, the pioneers of sealed lead acid battery technology, led to the unique partnership for Sealed Lead Acid Aircraft batteries.

With CAA approval since late 1985, Hawker Energy Batteries has become the widely preferred original or retrospective fit battery for a wide range of aircraft, both civil and military, worldwide.

Marathon Norco Aerospace Ni-Cad Batteries

Marathon Batteries has been producing battery products since 1923. In 1948, they initiated development of nickel cadmium batteries and became the first company in the United States to manufacture a rechargeable, sintered plate nickel cadmium battery. In 1978, they consolidated all of their operations to Waco, Texas and have been a leader in aircraft nickel cadmium batteries vented and sealed cell batteries ever since. The company's technological and industry firsts over the decades have placed it in a leading position. The new Marathon Micro Maintenance line utilises the latest in aircraft battery technology. This technology allows for greatly reduced maintenance intervals which translates into significantly reduced maintenance costs while supplying improved reliability. Marathon's ever increasing line of Micro Maintenance batteries means there's probably a Micro Maintenance battery for your turbine powered commercial, business, helicopter or general aviation aircraft.

Saft Ni-Cad Batteries

Originally founded in France, Saft is a long time leader in aircraft nickel cadmium batteries. With manufacturing plants in Bordeaux, France and Valdosta, Georgia, Saft is truly a world leader and innovator in batteries for the entire transportation market.

Saft has been expanding its unrivalled capability in aircraft battery development for over 80 years. They pioneered advanced battery design for a wide range of applications and markets. Continually they succeed in matching technical advances to the most demanding requirements in turbine starting and standby power for commercial, business, helicopter or general aviation aircraft.

With the new technology of ULM®, Ultra Low Maintenance, battery life cycle costs can be reduced without compromising safety, performance or reliability. ULM® batteries can provide service for extended periods of 6 to 8 years. That's why major original equipment manufacturers have been choosing ULM® technology since it became available. Over six thousand ULM® batteries have been put into service since 1995.

VARTA Ni-Cad Batteries

Varta batteries ensure efficient starting and reliability on board for the smallest private aircraft to the largest commercial aircraft for both civil and military. All materials used are subject to stringent laboratory tests and special quality controls according to IS09001:2000 requirements ensuring constant quality of the product. These batteries complywith the highest requirements of airworthiness authorities and Varta Safety Plus Power - made by Hawker - is the result of many years of research work.

Where a perfect supply of power to all monitoring devices must be ensured; where the function of all control instruments is vital, where perfect starting behaviour, even under extreme conditions must be ensured, where it is vital to maintain radio communication, then what is required is the Varta Nickel-Cadmium aircraft battery to ensure that constant operational readiness is available at all times to give high power and extensive capacity.