Our Capabilities
MANUFACTURING | INTEGRATION | CABLING
The BNC PWSIK and B306 Combined Gun Control Box were used to integrate the M230 Cannon onto a civilian-variant Black Hawk in 2016. Read the report.
Aerospace & Defense Electronics
Butler National – Tempe manufactures special mission electronics including gun control equipment, custom test equipment, rapid integration weapon-control systems, aircraft fuel tank safety solutions, and ruggedized system / weapon / instrument cabling solutions. Butler National products are used by airlines, OEMs, contractors, and government agencies. All of our products are designed by our engineers at our New Century, Kansas facility before they are manufactured at our Butler National – Tempe facility.
Butler National – Tempe is ITAR compliant and AS9100D / ISO 9001:2015 registered.
Service & Capability Details
Butler National – Tempe derived its skillsets from decades of manufacturing mission-critical avionics, defense electronics and aircraft modifications.
Manufacturing & Assembly
Butler National – Tempe manufactures electronics and electro-mechanical products and offers build-to-print services for customers. The engineers at our facility in New Century, Kansas optimize existing designs to improve performance and enhance efficient manufacturing. We specialize in built-in environmental and electromagnetic survivability.
System Integration
Butler National – Tempe provides systems integration solutions and products. We work with complex systems and standard communication formats including RS232, RS422, RS485 and CANBus. We have decades of experience manufacturing controls that interface with various avionics and weapons systems.
Cabling & Wiring Harnesses
Butler National – Tempe has over thirty years of experience manufacturing ruggedized cables for avionics, command/control, and weapons systems. We specialize in electromagnetic radiation shielding and molded/encapsulated construction for severe environments.
Testing & Qualifications
Butler National – Tempe has its own in-house environmental test facility. We perform shock, vibration, environmental stress screening, and temperature shock testing, development, and MIL-STD-810 qualification. Our products are acceptance-tested to prove compliance with severe environments in our dedicated facility.
Areas of Expertise
Circuits & Logic
Butler National – Tempe uses state-of-the-art pick-and-place machines and reflow soldering to assemble custom printed-circuit boards designed by the engineers at our New Century, Kansas facility. We also develop proprietary control logic for digital systems.
Ruggedized Enclosures
Butler National – Tempe manufactures ruggedized enclosures for electronics and electromechanical products designed at our facility in New Century, KS. We frequently qualify our enclosures to MIL-STD-461 and MIL-STD-810.
Ruggedization
Butler National – Tempe has over thirty years of experience in manufacturing ruggedized electronics and cables for avionics, command/control systems, testing systems and weapons systems.
Manufacturing
Butler National – Tempe manufactures, integrates and supports commercial Butler-designed control systems, ordnance related products and commercial aviation / avionics products.
Assembly
Circuit boards, cable assemblies, enclosures, and other sub-components are typically assembled on-site in the Tempe, Arizona facility.
Support Services
Butler is available to service damaged parts, produce additional products, or update/upgrade products. We also offer technical services and installation support.
Why Butler National?
Our unique skills and complex product manufacturing make Butler National a go-to manufacturing partner.
Customized Solutions
Butler National – Tempe takes an all-inclusive approach to electronics projects, including custom printed circuit boards, designed at our New Century, Kansas facility, and assembly, MIL-STD-882 compliant software/firmware development, custom enclosures to satisfy form-factor and ruggedization requirements, and in-house cable manufacturing.
SWaP-C Optimization
Butler National – Tempe electronics have been fielded in airplanes, helicopters and ground vehicles where size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) are material considerations.
MIL-STD Qualification
Butler National – Tempe qualifies specific products and components to military standards for electro-magnetic interference, vibration, temperature, and more. We also qualify to TSO and other environmental specifications.
Long Term Service & Support
Butler National – Tempe services include fabrication, service, overhaul, supplemental production and product updates/upgrades. We also offer technical services and installation support, as well as prototype design at our New Century, Kansas facility.
BNC: Supporting the missions that matter most.
From controlling the guns on the latest military vehicles to protecting the fuel tanks of commercial aircraft, Butler National Corporation products serve mission-critical roles in sectors where failure is not an option.