Collins Aerospace

American Refueler Equipment Company, Inc has been serving the needs of the aircraft refueling industry for over 20 years. We are located in Birmingham, AL and service the Southeast as well as the Midwest.

Atap, originally Quality Manufacturing, was founded in 1962 in Pell City, Ala. The company is a woman-owned small business. Atap is presently the worldwide depot overhaul facility and parts supplier for R9, R11 and R12 Air Force refueling vehicles. Over the course of the company's 40-plus years, the facility has overhauled ground support vehicles and equipment for the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corp. Atap is best known as a fire truck and crash truck facility. It overhauls aircraft cargo loading trucks, as well as, R-9/R-11 refueling trucks. This facility also overhauled CL3 aircraft cargo loading trucks and many vehicle components. Atap is a provider of spare parts to the Defense Department, as well as, to bases throughout the world. Most of the vehicles the company overhauls are very specialized vehicles. It has become a sole source for many spare parts needed to keep the vehicles in service.

Alabama Aircraft Industries, founded in 1983, provides aircraft maintenance and modification services to commercial airliners and the Department of Defence. The services offered by the company include engineering solutions, and service and repair of military transport vehicles, tankers and patrol aircraft airframes. It also manufactures aircraft parts and cargo handling systems, barrier nets, sewn products, seat pallets, floor panels, precision springs and components. The company s services to commercial airliners include heavy-maintenance checks, passenger-to-cargo conversions, aircraft stripping and painting, rewiring, parts fabrication, and installation of avionics systems in the aircraft. It also designs, integrates, tests and launches suborbital and orbital vehicles, and provides specialized structural, mechanical, avionics, and pneumatic subsystems and components. Alabama Aircraft Industries is headquartered in Birmingham, Ala.