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Why Barry Mounts?
* Barry Controls was founded in 1943 and initially developed vibration isolators for the US Navy.
* Barry Controls' parent company Hutchinson was founded in 1853 and first made waterproof rubber boots. Today, Hutchinson is owned by the French oil company Total.
* In 2014 Barry changed their Legal name to Hutchinson Aerospace & Industry, Inc. along with our 23+ sister companies.
* In 1910 Hutchinson produced coated fabrics for aircraft and airships that were used in the first aircraft crossing of the English Channel.
* Their sister company Paulstra developed “Dynaflex” the first aircraft piston engine isolation system in 1934.
* Hutchinson’s chemists develop and produce proprietary blends of elastomeric materials for use in BarryMounts. These include highly-damped elastomers that excel in aircraft engine isolators. We are experts at bonding metal to rubber.
* Hutchinson uses a wide variety of elastomeric materials (and blends of these) to suit the varying needs of particular aircraft applications. They use Natural Rubber for its tear resistance, chlorylbutyl, chlorylprene, EPDM, Silicone (for it’s high resistance to heat), as well as Metal mesh and other compounds.
* Hutchinson Aerospace is the OEM supplier to many Aircraft Manufacturers like Textron Aviation(Premier 1, King Air & Beech 1900), Gulfstream(GII, GIIB, GIII, G350, G-IV, G450), Maule, Pilatus PC-6, -7, -9, -12, & -24, Piaggio, Daher-Socata TBM, HondaJet, Eclipse, Extra, Quest Aircraft, Viking Air (Twin Otter), Air Tractor, Thrush Aircraft, Britten Norman, Casa, Dornier, Twin Commander, British Aerospace, Pacific Aerospace, Fairchild/Merlin, Cessna Citation IV thru VII+ Corvalis (TTX), SAAB, ATR, Boeing, Airbus, Embraer, and others.
* More commercial aircraft have flown more flight hours on BarryMounts than any other isolator type.
* BarryMount piston isolators are a great value! They typically cost less than the competition’s. A 2018 internet price comparison showed Barry’s isolator for a Beech Bonanza cost $143.75 USD ea vs. the competition’s isolator at $188.48 USD ea. Incidentally this Barry isolator is a more robust isolator than the competition’s (spreading the loads out over a wider surface area) in this application. Barry had this isolator FAA/PMA approved via testing & computation vs. identicality so they could make it better than the competition’s.
* Hutchinson Aerospace has several piston engine part numbers that are FAA/PMA approved to replace 2,3, or 4 different of part #s or our competitor’s. This makes it possible to stock a fewer number of BarryMount parts and still service a wider variety of aircraft, thus reducing costs.
* BarryMount piston isolators are designed and approved to be used without the use of silicone filled “jelly bags” that surround the center spacers of some competitor’s isolators. These “Jelly Bags” in use in certain competitor’s isolators can leak and cause otherwise premature replacement of isolators. BarryMounts piston isolators will never leak!
* Some Hutchinson aircraft piston engine isolators use molded rubber bonded to their center spacers. This is there for torsional stiffness and aids in providing a “soft snub” instead of a “hard snub”.
* Hutchinson has developed specialized fluid-filled, elastomeric isolators for Bizjets that have two auxiliary tuned mass absorbers (TMAs) to reduce N1 and N2 vibrations. Hutchinson hold a patent for this proprietary technology. These isolators can change their isolation characteristics during flight to maximize their performance.
* Hutchinson offers economical Rebuilt Exchange isolators for a wide variety of Turboprop, Bizjet, Regional, & Commercial aircraft. This helps lower aircraft operators direct operating costs.
* Recently Hutchinson Aerospace received FAA/PMA on isolators for Cessna 172RG, 172Q, 172R, 172S, Cessna 182S & 182T, Cessna 206H, & T206H, & Pilatus PC-12 among others.
* From designing customized materials to integrating connected solutions, Hutchinson contributes to making mobility of the future safer, more comfortable, & more sustainable.
