Cox & Company

Founded in 1944, Cox & Company is a defense subsystem manufacturer based in Plainview, United States working in air systems.

Cox & Company is an aerospace engineering manufacturer specialising in in-flight ice protection and temperature control systems. Founded during World War II to address US military in-flight icing problems, it designs, develops, tests and manufactures electro-thermal and low power ice protection systems, heaters, electronic controllers and composite parts for commercial, business and military fixed-wing and rotorcraft. Its products have been used on the Apollo Lunar Module, the AH-64 Apache, B-1B Lancer, P-8A and other platforms. The company operates a 110,000 sq ft facility in Plainview, New York, including an icing wind tunnel and test laboratories, and offers full life-cycle support from design through repair. It also supplies transit industry products such as rail coupler heaters. Cox has been owned by employees through an ESOP and was acquired by Hutchinson, a global aerospace supplier.