{"id":13852,"date":"2024-03-18T23:44:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T04:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=13852"},"modified":"2024-03-18T23:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T04:58:50","slug":"hartzell-propeller-acquires-whirlwind-propellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=13852","title":{"rendered":"Hartzell Propeller acquires Whirlwind Propellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PIQUA, Ohio, March 15, 2024 \u2013<\/strong> Hartzell Propeller (\u201cHartzell\u201d), a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management, today announced the acquisition of substantially all the\u00a0assets of WhirlWind Propellers Corporation (\u201cWhirlWind Propellers\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d), expanding Hartzell\u2019s product portfolio into light-sport aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1995, WhirlWind Propellers manufactures composite constant-speed and ground-adjustable propellers for the light-sport, experimental and unmanned aircraft markets. The Company also designs proof of concept propellers for emerging applications.\u00a0Hartzell Propeller plans to retain the WhirlWind brand and product offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Hartzell will retain the services of Jim Rust, former President of WhirlWind Propellers. Rust\u2019s technological expertise with rapid prototyping composite propeller systems further enhances Hartzell\u2019s existing capabilities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"htex-popover-control\"><span id=\"htex-popover-action-copy\">Copy<\/span><b><\/b> <span id=\"htex-popover-action-translate\">Translate<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"htex-popover-control\"><span id=\"htex-popover-action-copy\">Copy<\/span><b><\/b> <span id=\"htex-popover-action-translate\">Translate<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PIQUA, Ohio, March 15, 2024 \u2013 Hartzell Propeller (\u201cHartzell\u201d), a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management, today announced the acquisition of substantially all the\u00a0assets of WhirlWind Propellers Corporation (\u201cWhirlWind Propellers\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d), expanding Hartzell\u2019s product portfolio into light-sport aircraft. Founded in 1995, WhirlWind Propellers manufactures composite constant-speed and ground-adjustable propellers for the light-sport, experimental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13859,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852\/revisions\/13859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}