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.