Tour of Ascent Aerospace - OC

Tour of ADC Aerospace

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Ascent Aerospace

1395 S. Lyon St

Santa Ana, CA 92705

Presenter:

Paul Walsh, President, CA & Defense, Ascent Aerospace

Ascent Aerospace is one of the largest designer, manufacturer and installer of aircraft sub-assembly and assembly lines for the world’s aerospace OEM’s with operations in California, Michigan, and Europe. This includes factory flow & design for rate, automation (robotic assembly, material handling, etc), tooling (layup molds, assembly jigs, work platforms, drill jigs, etc), and automated drill and riveting machines. A sample of Ascent’s current project portfolio is building and installing a new F-35 center fuselage line in Germany, 777X wing molds, drill & rivet assembly line for 737Max, center fuselage molds for A350, positioning system and join for several large rockets, and sub-assembly lines for several classified defense projects among many other projects.

Our Santa Ana site makes molds for composite part manufacture, and assembly tooling for assembling aircraft. While our large machine shop is in Irvine, all other operations in CA are in Santa Ana including a 40-ft 3D Printer for making prototypes and rapid thermoplastic tooling, a large weld fabrication shop with a 25-ft x 75-ft anneal oven, a composite fab shop with large 13-ft x 50-ft autoclave, an assembly shop for final assembly of tooling & equipment, and an engineering design center.

The visit to Ascent Aerospace will include a factory tour, and a presentation by Paul Walsh on project management of large, dynamic projects where customers make changes up until shipment.

Because there are many Defense projects on the floor, the visit will be restricted to US Citizens.

Presenter

Paul Walsh is President of Ascent’s Defense business since returning from retirement February 2023. He has 35+ years in the defense and aerospace industry and is responsible for developing and executing defense programs for the company. Previously he was Chief Operating Officer for Ascent Aerospace from 2011 to 2021 and before that served as President of Coast Composites. Prior to Coast, Mr. Walsh held executive positions within major aerospace and materials companies including Goodrich Aerospace (now RTX), Hercules Aerospace (now Northrop Grumman), Zoltek Carbon Fibers (now Toray), and Union Carbide Corporation.

Paul holds an MS in Materials Engineering from the University of Utah, and a BS in Ceramic Engineering from Alfred University.

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