Highlight on our Sponsors-ACS Products

 

 

 

We so appreciate our sponsors and without them we would not be able to participate in the Air Race Classic. We want to thank our sponsors and would like you to visit their websites, get to know them better, and thank them too.

 

 

 ACS Products: "Flo" Platinum Level Sponsor

 

Our Race plane is named for Flo Irwin. In the summer of 1956, Flo and Bob Irwin founded Fullerton Air Parts at Fullerton Municipal Airport in Southern California. Bob, born and raised in Kansas City, MO., a pilot since the 1940's and active in the CAP and other aviation groups, knew airplanes and the parts that were needed to keep them flying. Flo, a native of Rochester, New York, had no aviation background but learned the business quickly and knew what it would take to keep customers coming back... fair prices and good service. Fullerton Air Parts grew into one of the largest retail aircraft parts suppliers in the western states during the next nine years. 



Flo and Bob Irwin, along with their son John, moved to Lake Havasu City, Arizona in the fall of 1983 and founded ACS Products Co., which manufactures a line of products which is distributed by Aircraft Spruce.

 Flo Irwin passed away on June 10, 1989, but the legacy of this warm, outgoing, and talented businesswoman lives on in the businesses she founded and built to serve the aviation community.

 

 John Irwin, his wife, Frances, and Bob Irwin now manage the ACS Products Co. operation. Bob Irwin is an instrument rated pilot with more than 2000 hours logged and based his 1968 Navion Rangemaster at Lake Havasu City until May 2000 when Bob retired as a pilot, after fifty years of flying, and moved the Navion to Chino Airport for his grandchildren to fly. Prior to acquiring the Rangemaster in 1976, Bob owned a Vultee BT-13B and a 1949 Ryan Navion. John and Frances both received their private pilot license in the fall of 2012. Their 1968 Cessna 182L is the race plane we have named for Flo. 

 



ACS Products has been supplying aircraft parts and accessories to the aircraft industry since 1985.  The majority of our products are stocked by our distributors. If you are looking for a customized version  of a stock product, or development of your own idea, you may deal directly with us. ACS Products occupies a 10,000 square foot facility located in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The company includes a complete CNC turning and machining department, metal spinning department, welding department, assembly, testing, and inspection department, and an engineering department. Our CNC turning and milling department enables us to produce high quality parts at very competitive prices. The spinning department produces parts using the "spinning process"  which forms three dimensional parts out of flat stock, thereby reducing material loss and cost. All welding requirements are performed by certified welders using TIG and brazing processes. All products are subjected to critical first part, in process, and final inspection. Flight critical products like cables are 100 percent functionally tested. We also have an Engineering department to help you take your idea or print from prototype to finished product quickly and inexpensively. Thank you so much to ACS family for their support of our race team!