Ranger Aerospace celebrates 25th anniversary
September 1, 2022
GREENVILLE, SC – Ranger Aerospace, a private equity consolidator and management holding company specializing in aerospace operations and aviation services deals since 1997, marks its twenty-fifth anniversary since inception this year. During September, Ranger is hosting a business reception called “A Celebration About People” to highlight the 25 years milestone. Ranger has built several separate platform companies to over $100 million revenues each thus far in its 25-year history and has managed as many as 4,250 personnel at 56 airports. Ranger focuses heavily on operations, marketing, quality, and people, with a principled “Good to Great” incremental approach to business transformations.
Ranger’s latest holdings are ACL Airshop, which provides air cargo products and services to airlines clients at more than half of the world’s Top 50 cargo airports, and InTech Aerospace, which performs retrofit services on commercial airliner interiors. The investment in ACL Airshop won the Deal of the Year award for 2016 from M&A Advisor magazine, an international financial publication.
In earlier aviation ventures, Ranger Aerospace won similar awards for Deal of the Year in 2009, and Deal of the Decade in 2011 (for the decade ending 2010). Ranger’s divestiture of Ranger International Services Group won 3 Deal of the Year awards in 2012 for the sale of that aerospace/defense technical services company to a major international engineering firm.
This 25th anniversary commemorates Ranger’s long history of growth in the aerospace management and investment field. Since its inception in March 1997, Ranger’s previous large-scale multi-year and multi-acquisition successes have included:
- ASIG,
- Keystone Helicopter,
- Skytanking GmbH,
- Composite Technology Inc.,
- Ranger Rotorcraft Group,
- Ranger International Services Group, and
- the Keystone HeliPlex.
A total of 19 companies have been assembled within the several successive growth umbrellas, including acquisitions and self-grown startup subsidiaries.
