Aerospace & Defence
Flight-critical parts with traceability from melt to shipment
Structural brackets, housings, fittings and engine hardware in 7075, 2024, titanium and Inconel — machined to drawing, inspected against the model and documented so the record survives an audit ten years from now.
Typical requirements
- AS9102 first-article inspection reports
- Full material traceability to melt lot
- Controlled special processes
- Distortion control on thin-wall structures
- Ten-year record retention
Components we machine
What aerospace work demands
Aerospace parts fail audits more often than they fail in service, and both failures come from the same root: incomplete records. Our aerospace routing captures material certificate, heat lot, operator, machine, programme revision, tool life and inspection data for every serial number, retained for a minimum of ten years.
Material control
7075-T651, 2024-T351, 6061-T6, Ti-6Al-4V, 15-5PH, 17-4PH and Inconel 718 are purchased from mills with EN 10204 3.1 certification and stored under lot segregation. Material is verified by positive material identification (PMI) where the customer specification requires it.
Process specialities
- Thin-wall pocket machining with staged stress relief to control post-machining distortion
- Chemical conversion coating to MIL-DTL-5541 Type I/II and anodising to MIL-A-8625 Type II/III
- NAS 410 penetrant inspection through qualified partners
- Special process control with frozen parameters and requalification on change
Inspection and first article
First-article inspection follows the AS9102 format: Form 1 part accountability, Form 2 product accountability for raw material and special processes, Form 3 characteristic accountability with a measured value for every ballooned dimension. Reports are issued as PDF and, where you use a supplier portal, in your template.
Confidentiality
Defence-related geometry is handled under NDA with access limited to named personnel. Files are never transferred to third-party subcontractors without written approval, and we will decline work we cannot handle inside our own walls.
Working in this sector?
We can share relevant references and quality documentation under NDA.
- Reviewed by a manufacturing engineer
- NDA available before file exchange