1. Company Overview
October 2012
ACTA Corporate Proprietary Information

2. Location
•16 miles from I-70
•40 miles from I-15
• Railway 30 miles– soon
to be 5 miles
•FedEx and UPS deliver
and pickup 2 times each
day

3. Company Overview
 Composite Design & Fabrication since 1984
 Core Competencies: Design, Tooling, Build,
Assembly
 Integrated Parts & Assemblies for Aerospace & Defense
 High-Volume Production
 Rapid Prototyping – Engineering & First Article Build
 In-House Capabilities = Cost-Effective, Quick-Moving, On-Time &
Budget
 AS9100C and NADCAP Accreditation
(Composites)
 SBA Small Business
 100+ Skilled Employees

4. ACT Customers

5. Key Management
 Dr. Roland Christensen, Founder, CEO, Chief Engineer
 Founded ACT in 1984; also founded Freedom Innovations & Christensen Arms
 Previous: VP Engineering Fibertek, EDO Fiber Sciences, Hercules Inc.
 Jason Christensen, President
 15+ years aerospace composite design & manufacturing
 MBA, MSME & BS Manufacturing, BYU
 Loren Anderson, Vice President Engineering
 25+ years engineering and design
 High volume, repetitive, Lean applications
 Marc Blakely VP Sales
 20 years aerospace operations, sales, program management, composites
manufacturing
 BS, US Air Force Academy & MBA, University of Chicago
 Andy Hill, VP Program Management
 Previously General Manager and Quality Manager for ACT Aerospace
 Program Manager for Mentor-Protégé program with NAVAIR and Bell Helicopter
 Brent Wallace, CFO
 Bank Controller & CFO
 Public Accounting, Grant Thornton

6. Sister Companies
 Carbon Barreled
Hunting Rifles
 $10 Million Revenue
Business
 Co-located with ACT
Aerospace
 www.christensenarms.com

7. Sister Companies
 Freedom Innovations
 Prosthetic feet and knees
 Over 100 sets/day shipped
 $30 Million + Revenue
Business
 Founded/grown by Roland
Christensen & Family
 80% sold in 2007
 Remaining 20% sold in
2012
 Still located on-site at
ACTA

8. Engineering Capabilities
 Composite Engineering Design
 Complex Integrated Assemblies
 C4ISR Pods, External Fuel Tanks, Aircraft, UAS,
and Rotorcraft Structure
 Design for Manufacturability
 Skilled in supporting high-volume manufacturing
runs to AS9100 standards
 Rapid Prototyping
 In-house capabilities and experience allow for
quick/decisive response
 Stress and Materials Analysis
 In-house Structures DER, Materials & Processes
DER
 Allows for complete engineering package
substantiation
 Can create and deliver external loads reports,
structural substantiation reports

9. Composite Production Capabilities
Laminate Construction
 25+ hand lay up technicians Filament winding
 All prepreg/vacuum bag trained  6 ft in diameter x 50ft
 250º, 350º, 450º systems
 4 axis
 Can produce +300 lbs/day autoclave
cured laminate Laser Ply Placement
 3D Laser Projection
Autoclave curing (120 psi 450º)  ~18’x18’
 All computer controlled (ASC)
Large Oven curing
 4’ x 6’
 (8) sizes up to 8'x8'x14‘
 6’x6’
 7.5' x15’  New 9’ x 22’ oven
 10’ x 55’  Max temperature of 500º
 12’ x 40’ Paint Booth
Composite Compression molding  10’ X 14’ X 6’
 19”x24”x14” (35 ton) CNC Ply Cutting
 24”x12”x8” (2) (15 ton)  (3) 288”x52”
Freezers (-20ºF)
Composite Bladder Forming  All computer controlled and monitored
Resin Transfer Molding (SQRTM)  54’x14’
 20’x8’

10. Production Support Capabilities
 Quality Inspection
 Level III – In house  CNC Machining
 FARO Laser Tracker CMM  CAM driven machining
 Full line of Metrology Equipment  (1) 5 axis router – 10’x20’x4’
 (1) 5 axis router – 12’x8’x4’
 Non Destructive  (5) 4 axis mills
 (2) Phased Array C-Scan  (2) CNC lathes
 (2) A-Scan
 Bond Testing
 TTU  Complete Welding Fabrication
 Immersion Tank (4’x40’x2’)  TIG, MIG, ARC, etc
 Testing  Fully equipped machine stop
 MTS 55 kip
 R/I Composite Material
 INFOR Visual ERP System
 Fatigue
 Tension/Compression
 Pressure
 Diamond DMA
 Thermal Analysis
 Environmental Test Chamber
 48”x48”x54”
 -40º to 375º

11. Analysis, Materials, Quality/Testing
Support
 Structures and M&P DER on staff
 Structural and Vibration Analysis
 Typically support R&D programs with full stress reports
 Part 23 and 25 experience
 Full Internal Test Lab
 Robust Materials/Quality Testing Capability
 Testing conducted daily for:
 Bell Helicopter
 Cirrus Design
 Honda Aircraft Company
 Agusta Westland
 Others
 FAA Material Site Qualification achieved for Toray
T700/2510 system
 Allowables testing currently in process for another system

12. Door Assemblies

13. Filament Winding
• For this program ACTA built/certified:
• New Class 2000 clean room
• New 4-axis winding machine
• New oven
Filament Wound Fuel Tank

14. Cirrus G3 Wing Main Spar
 Parts
 Over 2000 delivered to
date
 Spar: 40 feet part length
 ~70 lbs each
 (4-16) per week
 Autoclave cure
 100% C-scan (immersion)
 Description
 Full FAA conformance to
CFR 14 part 23
 Toray Material Site
Qualification
 Documentation

15. Various Assembies
ACTA routinely produces various small assemblies
• Composite structure
• Full assembly (Nut cages / bonding)
• Complete NDI / NDT to be completed
• Fabricate all tooling in house

16. Primary Structure
 Parts
 130 different parts for
V-22, UH-1Y, ARH, V-
22
 Autoclave cure
 Hand lay up
 Class I parts
 Description
 Stiffeners, intercostals
 Ballistic panels
 Bonded core panels
 Assembly

17. Sandwich Structures
Structural Panel – Sandwich Construction

18. External Pod Structures
 External Stores Pod
 Fabrication
 Machining
 Tooling
 Assembly
 Description
 Designed and fabricated all
tooling including stress
analysis, composite lay up,
drill/trim, and assembly
fixtures.

19. Wing Box Assemblies
Large Assemblies – Wing Structure
• Composite / core structure
• Full assembly
• Complete NDI / NDT
• Fabricated all tooling in house

20. Aero Shell Structures
Aero Shell for Large Structure – Cored Panel with Curvature

21. Compression Molding
• ACTA produces several
thousand compression
molded parts per year

22. Engineering / CAD Systems
 CAD/solid modeling
 CATIA V5 (6 Seats)
 CATIA V4 (1 Seat)
 Solid Works
 Pro/E
 FEA
 MSC Nastran
 ELFINI
 Cosmos/GeoStar
 CAM
 CATIA V5
 Master CAM
 Computer Aided Composite Design
 CATIA V5 CPM and CPE
 Proprietary Laminate Analysis Programs

23. Facilities / Capacity
 130,000 + 50,000 (new)
square feet of
manufacturing space
 50,000 square feet
available for new projects
 3 different facilities

24. NDI Capabilities
• OmniScan
• (2) OmniScan Phased
Array
• C-Scan
• A-Scan
• S-Scan
• Bonda Scope (Bond
testing)

25. NDI Capabilities
• Through Transmission
Unit (TTU)
• Computer
automated
• 2540 mm x 1067
mm scan area
• Scan up to 305
mm/sec
• Fully self contained
• Flat/Core panels

26. Summary
 Highly Experienced and Successful Company
 Rate Production of Complex Structures and
Assemblies
 Composite Design, Analysis, Tooling, Production
Experts
 Vertically Integrated with Strong In-House
Capabilities
 CNC Machining, Tool Design, etc.
 Result: Lower Costs and Decreased Cycle Times
 AS 9100 / NADCAP
 AS 9100 (2006)
 NADCAP (2010)

27. Contact Information
Applied Composite Technology Aerospace
425 East 400 North
Gunnison, UT 84634
Marc Blakely – Vice President
marcb@actaero.com
303-520-6379