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Published on
April 28, 2025
The aerospace industry requires exacting standards and specifications to guarantee the reliability, safety, and compliance of its components. That makes custom hard cases and soft cases imperative for the aviation and aerospace sectors. They protect critical components, instruments, and avionics using the industry’s most stringent regulations and standards, like ATA Spec 300 and military standards.
Aerospace equipment is at risk from the kind of vibrations and impacts that can happen during routine and rough transportation. Extremely sensitive instruments, like gyroscopes, navigation systems, flight data recorders, and other avionics, can suffer performance degradation or fail completely if they aren't protected properly. Custom made cases offer precision-engineered inserts—molded or cut foam, for example— and other features that are designed specifically to cushion delicate onboard systems against the shocks and vibrations that can occur during transit.
In addition, custom cases offer additional features such as reinforced corners, structural supports, airlocks, pressure release valves, and weather seals, which further ensure protection. The cases and included features are subject to rigorous testing that matches the impact, and vibration demands of aerospace applications, ensuring that sensitive, vital instruments arrive in working condition.
Custom aerospace cases are engineered to meet demanding industry standards, like ATA Spec 300 and MIL-STD-810. ATA Spec 300 lays out guidelines for air transport association cases, covering essential protective and durability issues that are necessary for the kind of logistics the aerospace industry requires. For military situations, MIL-STD-810 covers a range of environmental conditions that are extremely relevant to the airborne environment. Cases that are built to meet these standards are truly rugged and reliable.
Every custom case undergoes stringent testing to verify its compliance, which includes performing drop tests, conducting vibration analyses, simulating environmental conditions, and assessing durability. The manufacturers carefully document these tests, providing their aerospace clients with a detailed certification of compliance, so that there is confidence in the handling and deployment of equipment.
Aerospace equipment, particularly sensitive avionics and instrumentation, demands custom protection from environmental hazards such as moisture, dust, and sand to ensure passenger and cargo safety. These threats, plus others—like extreme temperatures and atmospheric pressure variations—affect the delicate electronics found inside all sorts of engineered enclosures. And so, custom aerospace cases are built to incredibly tight tolerances, and feature advanced sealing technologies like airtight gaskets, pressure relief valves, and moisture barriers—that is, layers of materials that absorb water vapor, keeping the inside environment dry.
Protecting aerospace equipment and cargo is extremely important in saving costs. Much of the equipment used in aviation is extremely expensive, so mitigating damage leads to less replacement and repair cost. A custom case fitted to exact equipment provides protection built for specific situations.
Moreover, custom cases achieve higher levels of protection and enhanced operational reliability by reducing down-time from replacement and repair of essential equipment. This enhanced reliability allowing airlines, defense contractors, aerospace manufacturers, and maintenance service providers to operate more efficiently. When you invest in customized protection, even as the world grows more dangerous, the net result is just the opposite: a host of operational benefits that allow your organization to work better, cost less, and use less.
Regulatory Compliance: Guarantees that cases satisfy the tough criteria of aerospace safety and operations.
Advanced Impact Protection: Keeps delicate, critical equipment in one piece, protected from rough travel.
Robust Environmental Safeguarding: Shields the mostly delicate equipment from the elements, allowing for use in any situation.
Economic Efficiency: Makes sure that equipment spends less time being repaired and your operation stays up and running.
Confidently adhere to aerospace standards with custom solutions from Royal Case Company. We can provide any case solution you can imagine. With our extensive experience designing and manufacturing custom cases that meet aviation and aerospace specifications, we can deliver a safe, operationally reliable solution for your equipment. Contact us today to discover just how many ways we can deliver your equipment to specs.
Author: Kelvin Gentry
Kelvin Gentry is the Marketing Director for Royal CaseCompany Inc. based out of Sherman, TX.
