The refuelling systems were developed and installed by Flight Refuelling Ltd, at Tarrant Rushton in the United Kingdom.
The community is home to mainly middle- and upper-middle-class families with a proportion of the adults being employed by Cobham plc in the field of Defence, Avionics and Surveillance Systems.
The KC-130J was supposed to be equipped with Flight Refuelling Ltd's Mk32B-901E hose-and-drogue units, but operational problems meant that the aircraft went into production using equipment from Sargent Fletcher instead.
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Sargent Fletcher is a subsidiary company of Cobham plc.
McKnight is currently employed by Cobham plc, a British defense contracting company as Vice President for Government Relations at its subsidiary,
Employer sponsors of Visions Learning Trust include Chubb Systems, Cobham plc, Electricity North West, Enterprise plc, National Grid plc, Rolls-Royce plc, Safran Aircelle and Unison Industries.
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The instrument panel can be equipped with a 4-screen Cobham/Chelton Flight Systems IDU-680 EFIS.
He later moved closer to home with Schlumberger in Ferndown, and then in 2005 moved to Cobham plc(formally Flight Refuelling ltd.) where he became a Software Team Leader.