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Falcon Jacksonville joins VAERO: expanding aerospace & defense capabilities

06/02/2025

Press releaseIssued by VAERO Jacksonville (was Kaman Aerospace).

Kaman Aerospace Jacksonville (KAJ), a division of Kaman Aerospace Corp., is a highly regarded aerospace and defense manufacturing supplier to some of the largest aerospace corporations in the world. The Jacksonville location, now known as Falcon Jacksonville, LLC dba VAERO will become a strategic addition to the VAERO/VECCO group of companies by being able to offer its end users extrusion and sheet metal fabrication, precision machining, composite, and complex metal structure assemblies.

Jacksonville’s facility is staffed with an extremely talented, knowledgeable management team and workforce who are dedicated to its future and the quality of its products for its diverse customer base. Jacksonville possesses the highest level of technical, engineering, and testing expertise that compliments its manufacturing footprint. They support platforms in various stages of their respective life cycles, granting access to both new orders and spares/replacement demand cycles. They also hold key positions on long-life military and commercial aerospace platforms both fixed-wing and rotorcraft, including but not limited to, the Sikorsky UH-60, Boeing A-10, Bell AH-1Z, and Boeing 767/777.

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