Crane Aerospace & Electronics Selects Topcast Aviation as Authorized Distributor to APAC Market

Crane Aerospace & Electronics has appointed Hong Kong-based Topcast Aviation Supplies as an authorized distributor for the A320 Crane Landing Gear Control Interface Unit (LGCIU).

Under the terms of the agreement, Topcast will serve as the exclusive distributor for the Crane LGCIU in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, including China, Korea, India, Thailand and Australia.

Crane’s A320 LGCIU senses and controls the position of the landing gear, landing gear doors, and cargo doors, and provides health monitoring status. The Crane LGCIU provides higher reliability and improved fault detection and fault isolation benefits, reducing maintenance costs and improving aircraft dispatch rates. The Crane LGCIU has been standard on all A320 family aircraft produced since October 2010. Topcast will offer the enhanced LGCIU as a retrofit upgrade to customers with aircraft produced prior to October 2010.

Gregg Herman, Aerospace Group vice president, Sales and Marketing for Crane, says, “As the first Asian supplier to receive ASA 100 certification, Topcast’s commitment to quality establishes them as a respected presence in a rapidly growing market. This, along with their position as the largest independent, Asia-based distributor of aircraft parts in the APAC market, makes them the right choice for our regional distributor. We are looking forward to working with Topcast to deliver the highest level of service to our Asia-Pacific customers.”

“We are excited to deliver the benefits of the LGCIU retrofit to the A320 operators in the region,” says Thomas Hung, managing director for Topcast. “The Crane LGCIU provides a significant increase in reliability, which leads to better operational performance and reduced maintenance costs. We are looking forward to assisting our customers in optimizing their system performance with this retrofit.”