S-TEC Corporation is a United States corporation that was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Mineral Wells, Texas. It manufactures flight control systems for the General Aviation aftermarket and for a number of original equipment manufacturers. S-TEC is the leader in the general aviation autopilot market for small- and mid-sized planes.

Customers

Genesys Aerosystems has a number of forward-fit autopilot customers including Pilatus, Indonesian Aerospace,^[1] Epic Aircraft, and Aviat Aircraft.^[2] Their latest autopilot, the S-TEC 3100, has earned Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) on over 100 aircraft models.^[3]

History

Meggitt acquired S-TEC and S-TEC Unmanned Technologies (SUTI) for $24 million in 2000.^[4][5] (DRS Technologies purchased the UAV business from Meggitt in 2002^[6] but later closed the Mineral Wells facility.)

S-TEC was purchased for $38 million by Cobham plc in 2008.^[7][8]

In April 2014, Cobham sold Chelton Flight Systems and S-TEC Corporation to Genesys Aerosystems.^[9][10]

Products

Avionics

• Autopilot for small- and mid-sized planes
• S-TEC 5000^[11]
• S-TEC 3100^[12]
• S-TEC 2100^[13]
• S-TEC IntelliFlight 1950^[14]
• S-TEC System 65^[15]
• S-TEC System 60-2^[16]
• S-TEC System 55X^[17]
• S-TEC System 40/50^[18]
• S-TEC System 30ALT/60PSS^[19]
• S-TEC System 20/30^[20]
• SA-200 Altitude Pre-Selector^[21]
• ST-360 Altitude Pre-Selector w/Alerter^[22]
• GPSS^[23]
• Yaw Damper^[24]

Aircraft

• S-TEC Sentry