Mace Aviation fabricates aircraft-grade metallic structures, formed brackets, machined fittings, welded assemblies, skin panels, and integrated substructures, for defense contractors, helicopter programs, and advanced development efforts, in aluminum, titanium, steel, and stainless alloys.
Like our composite work, most of what we build here is for rotorcraft: the MD500 nose mount, Black Hawk nose mount, and MX-25D targeting pod all combine metallic and composite structure. If your program needs a supplier who can source both under one engineering team rather than coordinating two vendors, that’s the specific problem this shop is set up to solve.
Programs we’ve supported include work with Lockheed Martin, NAVAIR, L3Harris, and Stratolaunch, plus Makani Power, Dillon Aero, Air Tractor, and MD Helicopters. Arizona-based, domestic sourcing. Currently pursuing ISO 9001 certification.
Our metallic structures capability covers the full range of structural aerospace hardware. We fabricate formed brackets, skin panels, complex machined fittings, welded assemblies, and integrated metallic substructures. We routinely produce metallic components that must mate directly with composite assemblies. Because our composite and metallic shops share the same engineering team, design, fit-check, and integration happen in one location.
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Mace Aviation’s metallic structures work spans programs for Lockheed Martin, NAVAIR, L3Harris, Stratolaunch, and others. Our fabrication team understands the documentation, traceability, and first-article requirements that come with defense and advanced development contracts.
Many of the most demanding aerospace structures are not purely composite or purely metallic. They are integrated systems that require both. Mace Aviation fabricates composite and metallic components in-house under the same engineering team. This eliminates the coordination risk that comes with split-source fabrication.
We have built integrated composite and metallic assemblies for helicopter airframes, weapon systems, and payload structures. Programs where the fabricator manages both material families in a single shop gain a measurable schedule and quality advantage.
Metallic structures at Mace Aviation are rarely standalone. Aerospace Composite Fabrication handles the skins, fairings, and structural panels that mate directly with metallic substructure, with both fabricated under the same engineering team. Composite and Metallic Tooling covers the fixtures, drill jigs, and assembly tools required for metallic fabrication programs. For programs requiring structural validation, Structural Analysis and FEA is performed in-house on the same components we build.
Yes. Mace Aviation maintains separate, dedicated facilities for composite and metallic fabrication. The same engineering team manages both, which makes us particularly well-suited for programs that require integrated composite/metallic assemblies.
We work with aerospace-grade aluminum, titanium, steel, and stainless steel alloys. Parts are fabricated from sheet stock, plate, and billet depending on the structural requirement.
Yes. Most of our metallic fabrication work, including the MD500 nose mount and Black Hawk nose mount, is for helicopter platforms, often combined with composite structure from the same program.
One team. Composite and metallic fabrication run out of separate dedicated facilities here, but under the same engineering group, which is the specific advantage for programs where a single structure combines both materials.
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Cutting edge rapid prototyping, design, engineering and production. Mace Aviation has been our go to for the last 19 years.
Director | L3Harris
Mace Aviation is a unique company that can rapidly design and develop advanced composites for the aerospace industry and then produce these products at a very competitive price. The Mace team is both innovative and practical with decades of experience in the fixed and rotary wing market. They are smart, practical and affordable and very good to work with. Mace is a top notch team.
CEO | MD Helicopters, LLC
