US oxygen system manufacturers
Latest update 06 November 2009
| Robertshaw | |
| 1907 | Company established, later renamed Robertshaw Controls Corporation. |
| 1956 | Robertshaw Fulton Controls Company mentioned in USN report. The regulators submitted by Robertshaw Fulton Controls Company were picked at random from production samples of oxygen breathing regulators model 2867A1B and B1. |
| ???? | Headquarters at Richmond, VA, and Aeronautical and Instrument Division at Anaheim, CA. |
| 1986 | Bought by Siebe Plc, UK. |
| Sabre | |
| 1984 | Sabre Industries acquired by Adams Rite Products, Inc. |
| 1993 | Adams Rite Products renamed Adams Rite Aerospace Inc. |
| Scott/Avox | |
| 1932 | Scott established in Lancaster, N.Y., by Earle Scott. under the name Universal Alloy Products Company. Manufactured tailskids and later tailwheels. |
| 1938 | Name changed to Scott Aviation Corp. |
| 1941 | Contracted to produce Mark X oxygen regulators to Royal Air Force and A-13 regulators (second source along with Bendix) for the USAAF. |
| 1956+ | Developed ejection seat survival kit. |
| 1966 | Scott Aviation Corp bought by Automatic Sprinkler Corp (ATO) (CEO Harry Figgie). |
| 1970 | Scott Aviation Corp renamed Scott Industries, inc. |
| ???? | ATO renamed Figgie International Corp. |
| 1998 | Figgie collapsed and Scott Technologies Inc. evolved as its replacement. |
| 2001 | Scott Aviation mentioned as division of Scott Technologies acquired by Tyco International in connection with a stock swap. |
| 2004 | Scott Aviation sold by Tyco International to the French industrial group Zodiac SA and renamed to Avox Systems. |
| Firewel/Aro/Carlton | |
| 1930 | Aro founded in Bryan, OH, by John Clifton Markey. |
| 1946 | Firewel founded in Lancaster, N.Y., by two employees from Scott Aviation. |
| 1951 | Firewel contracted to develop regulator for David Clark (BF Goodrich partial pressure suit for the US Navy). |
| 1956? | Firewel developed the first miniaturized mask-mounted oxygen system for the US Navy pilots flying the A-3D Skywarrior, F-4D Skyray, and the F-8U Crusader. |
| 1958 | Firewell sold to Aro Equipment Company (Firewel-Aro Co. mentioned in Convair report dated 29 April 1960) (Firewel F2700 seen as Aro F2700 updated to CRU-79/P specs, order date 1985). |
| 1968 | Aro moved production to its Ohio headquarters, but let the aerospace engineering and development entity remain in western New York. |
| 1985 | Todd Shipyards bought the aerospace engineering and development business from Aro. |
| 1990 | Due to Todd financial problems, Aro Pneumatic was sold to Ingersoll Rand. |
| 1993 | Carlton Controls, which was founded by a former employee, bought the aerospace aspect of the business, and continues to produce devices for high altitude and space flight. |
| Pioneer/Bendix/Clifton/Litton/Carleton | |
| 1951 | Bendix founded life support subsidiary. |
| ???? | Pioneer acquired by Bendix? (Pioneer-Central Division of Bendix Aircraft Corp seen on regulator pre-1961) |
| 1969 | Bendix life support mentioned. |
| 1979 | Litton (Clifton Precision) mentioned in sources (no connection to Bendix yet). |
| 1982 | Bendix life support sold to Litton Industries. |
| 1985- | Life support division renamed Clifton Precision (1984 order date noted) (does the Clifton name have anything to do with Aro’s founder, John Clifton Markey??), |
| 1993 | Clifton Precision renamed Litton Life Support (1993 manufacturing date noted), |
| 2001 | Litton Industries including its Life Support Division sold to Northrop-Grumman Corporation. |
| 2003 | Litton’s Life Support Division sold to Cobham Plc as Carleton Life Support Systems. |
| 2009- | Renamed Cobham Life Support (2009 brochure says that Carleton Life Support Systems Inc is doing business as Cobham Life Support). |
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