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Aerostar International
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Parachutes

Aerostar has set new technological
standards in the parachute
manufacturing industry.

Our ISO 9001:2000 Certification assures
our parachutes are manufactured with the
highest possible Quality Standards.

Our Quality System assures you every step
of the manufacturing process has our
parachutes delivered on time and to spec.


Our parent company, Raven
Industries, has manufactured
parachutes from their beginning
in 1956 through 2004.

That tradition continues at Aerostar
after assuming management of
what is now known as the
Aerospace Group.

Many different styles and types
of military parachutes have
been designed and manufactured
by Raven Industries and
Aerostar International in our
50 years of manufacturing.

The parachute shown at the
right is an ordnance chute
which fulfilled two functions:
deceleration and arming.

Some of our very earliest parachutes were
conceived, designed, copyrighted and
manufactured by Raven Industries.

The parachute shown to the left is the
R-PLUS® parachute, constructed
entirely of plastic, was designed
specifically for one-shot cargo delivery.

The manufacturing and raw material
costs were very inexpensive so a
single use was feasible. In the image
the parachute is carrying a
500 pound payload.


The Raven PLUS® parachute,
is a proprietary design and
was deployed successfully
at an altitude of 205,000 feet
after ejection from an ARCAS
meteorological rocket.

The metalized surface
provided a radar target
for radar tracking purposes.


Image Courtesy of NASA
 Black Brandt sounding rockets
are used for Near Space projects
requiring a higher altitude
than a high altitude research
balloon can achieve.

Raven Industries designed and
manufactured the very first Black
Brant Sounding Rocket Parachutes
in the 1950's and Aerostar International continues to manufacture them today.

These parachutes safely guide the
sampling equipment through the upper atmosphere, allowing the scientists
to gather and retrieve vital
information otherwise unavailable.



Raven R-Plus designs were also manufactured
for over 20 years for use in landing
decelerator parachutes for the Lear Jet
parachute program which ran
from 1968 to 1995.

In 1982, Goodyear Aerospace sub-
contracted with Raven to produce
the BALLUTE munitions decelerator.

Deploying at speeds above the speed
of sound, the BALLUTE experienced
tremendous opening forces.

The BALLUTE was an extremely difficult and demanding
parachute program.

The BALLUTE manufacturing
line ran for nearly a decade with impressive quality


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What types of parachutes can we
manufacture?

Any type of military parachute
in the marketplace!

Aerostar is positioned to support
the military cargo and personnel
parachute markets as new
designs enter service to
support an ever increasing
demand for performance
and reliability.

Aerostar is a premier manufacturer of
Cargo, Flare and Deceleration
Parachute systems.

We have three manufacturing facilities in
South Dakota and our 24,000 sq ft
Huron manufacturing facility can be
dedicated to your parachute
manufacturing needs.

We also manufacture payload recovery
parachutes at our Sulphur Springs,
Texas Aerospace Manufacturing Plant.


Do you have a different type of parachute
not mentioned above which you would
like us to quote for you?

Please send us your request!

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