M&A Deal Summary

Sierra Nevada Acquires Straight Flight

On February 9, 2007, Sierra Nevada acquired aerospace company Straight Flight

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Sierra Nevada’s 3rd transaction in the Aerospace sector.
  • This is Sierra Nevada’s 8th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Sierra Nevada’s 1st transaction in Colorado.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2007-02-09
Target Straight Flight
Sector Aerospace
Buyer(s) Sierra Nevada
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Straight Flight

Englewood, Colorado, United States
Straight Flight, Inc. is a FAA/EASA Certified Repair Station operations conducted commercial aircraft modification, installation, and maintenance activities.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Sierra Nevada

Sparks, Nevada, United States
Category Company
Founded 1963
Sector Aerospace
DESCRIPTION

Sierra Nevada Corp. is a prime systems integrator and electronic systems provider known for its rapid, innovative, and agile technology solutions. Fast-growing and widely diversified, SNC is a high-tech electronics, engineering, and manufacturing corporation that continues to expand our impressive portfolio of capabilities, programs, products and services.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 8 of 14
Sector (Aerospace) 3 of 8
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 8 of 14
State (Colorado) 1 of 2
Country (United States) 8 of 13
Year (2007) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-05-12 WaveBand

California, United States

WaveBand Corp. is an innovative electronic beam-steering antennas and imaging radar systems, to address aircraft autonomous landing, UAS detect, see and avoid, concealed object detection and surface surveillance radar sensor markets.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-01-10 MicroSat Systems

Littleton, Colorado, United States

MicroSat Systems, Inc. is a provider in the small satellite market and had developed innovative spacecraft that included better payload mass fraction, power, data processing, and pointing accuracy than other small satellites and showed the potential to be a disruptive technology to the large and very expensive satellites traditionally used for Department of Defense and NASA missions.

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