Lake Central Air Services - Lake Aircraft; Services Available

SURVEY SOLUTIONS

Lake Central Air Services designs and manufactures modifications for special purpose operations. Installation of surveillance land and sea, atmospheric monitoring and geophysical survey equipment.

Lake Central's team of technicians, designers and draftsman are capable of solving your special requirements with fast and affordable modifications. Lake Central Air Services also has a in-house Transport Canada design approval representative services to speed the LSTC or STC approval process.

We hold over 90 Supplemental Type Certificate approvals for survey modification on various makes and models of fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft plus a number of Limited Supplemental Type Certificates.

Lake Central manufactures custom survey equipment racks of many difference sizes and weight carrying capacity. We manufacture and supply survey tow ropes for magnetic and electromagnetic birds for fixed and rotary wing aircraft.

One of our most significant modification project to date was a wide variety of modifications to a Basler BT-67, a highly modified turbine powered DC-3. www.baslerturbo.com

This customer was Alfred Wegener Institute of Bremerhaven, Germany, www.awi.de to modify aircraft for research in Antarctic and Artic polar regions. The aircraft was designated Polar 5 and is carrying out Scientific Missions for Germany and will be working with such diverse users as Environment Canada, Canadian Space Agency, NASA, NOAA, European Union plus a number of North American and European Universities. Our role is continued modifications of this versatile aircraft to meet future scientific requirements.

We fitted the aircraft with upper and lower looking albedometers, upward and downward looking lidar. Two large 6ft. operator controlled retracting doors in the belly to cover four large and two small openings in the fuselage to accommodate a variety of downward looking instruments. The upper fuselage was fitted with two turrets to house upward looking instruments. Four upward and downward scanning radiation sensors were fitted to the fuselage. We also manufactured and installed a retractable Dropsonde Launcher in the cabin that extends or retracts through the bottom of fuselage.

For the wings we designed and manufactured two pylons for each wing with NATO hard point attachments to carry a wide range of scientific instrumentation, for example we manufactured four PMS canisters, carried in pairs on two of the NATO mount pylons. We designed and manufactured two large Ice Penetration Radar Antennas (EMR Antennas) carried on lower surface of each wing.

We designed and manufactured Ice Accumulation Radar housings to be carried on each outer wing NATO hard point pylons. We created a mount to house a Grading Spectrometer/Photometer in upper fuselage surface looking through a fused quartz dome. Also we designed an installation for a CR2 Hygrometer, installing a Radar Thermal Sensor AKT15, installing a methane detector along with our most challenging project the design, build and installation of a Winch for a 250 lbs. electromagnetic bird along with necessary trapeze or trap to carry Bird under fuselage.

With our success of past modifications Lake Central believes we are capable of modifying your aircraft and installing your equipment in a timely manner.

Lake Central and staff have a long history of designing modifications such as aerodynamic performance improvements, increased fuel capacity modifications, avionics and instrument panel redesign, design and manufacture airworthiness directives correction modifications. Lake Central is Transport Canada approved to manufacture aircraft parts and certify aerodynamic products.

With our experience we believe we can provide you with the modifications and installations you want. Contact us to see if we can assist you.