Cobham Composite Products - San Diego

Cobham Composite Products (Composite Products) has two facilities, our San Diego, California operation which is home to our legacy programs as well as our center of excellence for future product development as well as production programs; and our Suffolk, Virginia operation which is home to our High Volume Production Facility for lean production of all of our legacy and future programs.

Composite Products is a leader in the composites manufacturing industry with more than 25 years of production experience and a highly trained technical staff.  Cobham is dedicated to providing product design and engineering services to five primary industries:  Aircraft Engine Components, Aircraft and Rotorcraft Structures, Missiles and Munitions. 

Composite Products is known by our customers in the aerospace and defense industries for innovation, continual process improvements, and on-time deliveries with a superior production record. We specialize in Resin Transfer Molding (RTM), compression molding (with continuous reinforcements and bulk/sheet molding compounds), hand lay-up/autoclave cure, bladder molding, Memory Shape Mandrel (MSM™) Net Shape Molding, as well as mechanical hardware and electrical systems assembly and integration.  Composite Products has broad experience processing all aerospace-grade materials including graphite, Kevlar and fiberglass used in prepreg, BMC and sheet molding forms.  We demonstrated production experience using advanced resin systems including multiple epoxy systems, polyimides (such as Avimid N, MVK-19 and AFR-PE-4), phenolics, bismaleimide (BMI) and cyanate ester. 

Our product focus includes missile housings and components, munitions products, aircraft components, high temperature aircraft engine products, rotorcraft blade components and unmanned aerial vehicle airframes and sub-components.  We have the facilities, equipment and experienced staff necessary to design, analyze and develop processes for proof-of-concept and production components for advanced aerospace and defense applications.  We are well known for having one of the best track records in the advanced composites industry for reliable, high-volume production of aerospace composite products (from hundreds to over 15,000 parts per year). 

We are certified/multisite to ISO 9001:2008 and AS9100B:2004.