Aircraft Special Purpose Pods & Pylons

 

Special Purpose Pods and Pylons are used as permanent and/or temporary installation on applicable aircraft for special missions. All pods and pylons are built to military specifications containing the mounting structure to secure the mission payload components. With primary and secondary structure, the pods and pylons exhibit a service life relative to repeated air loads, vibratory forces and thermal loads.  Accessibility to internal components plays a major role in location and design of removable access panels to ensure maintainability of both pods and pylons.

Since the start of building specialized aircraft captive carry pods in the 1960s, Cobham has built over 1000 pods with functions covering Reconnaissance, Jamming, Data Link, Instrumentation, Electro Optical, and a host of other functions. 

 

Special Purpose Pods (Choose a model number to view product details)
Model (Part Number)	Application	NSN
MXU (pdf 301 kb) Cargo/Travel Pod (402136-3)	F-15, F-16, AV-8, A-10	1680-01-538-0545
NGCP (pdf 301 kb) Next Generation Cargo Pod (400850-3)	F-16	1680-01-459-1268

 

Pylons (Choose a model number to view product details)
Model (Part Number)	Application	NSN
Universal Pylon (pdf 503 kb) (400666-5)	C-130 Hercules	-

 

Repair/Overhaul Capabilities

 

Mission Equipment Training Information (pdf 922 kb)

CAGE Code: 72429

 

Contact Information
Type	Email	Telephone / Fax
Technical Contact	dave.buczkowski@cobham.com	T: +1 (563) 383 6316
Technical Contact	don.dowd@cobham.com	T: +1 (563) 383 6496
Service & Repair Quotes	nicole.neve@cobham.com	T: +1 (563) 383 6167
New Production Quotes	nadine.williams@cobham.com	T: +1 (563) 383 6434
General Information	CMS.davinfo@cobham.com	F: +1 (563) 383 6000