About Kawak

Centered in the Middle of Oregon is Kawak Aviation Technologies Home base.
To the West we have the ever abundant mountains, lakes and rivers and the to East we have miles  of intriguing desert lands and vistas.

Kawak Aviaton products are unique in design, function and engineering…

Kawak Aviation Technologies has had many great projects throughout it’s years in the aviation industry. Two of our biggest were the redesign of Boeing 757 cargo door’s hydraulics ( for Precision Conversions) and for  the Air Tractor GPS driven gate box controls.

In 1996, we designed our first ancillary hydraulic system for the Bell OH-58 / 206B helicopter. It was the first reliable, high output, after market variable hydraulic drive for rotary wing aircraft.

A string of hydraulic helicopter systems followed; the SA315B Lama, Bell 212 / 412 in both high flow and firefighting configurations, CH54B Sky Crane, B47, Hiller Soloy, Hughes 500, UH-B, H, L, & K, S64E & F, S-61, K-1200, etc. Many of these required our engineers  to design a gear reduction box in order to draw power from the engine gearbox or rotor transmission.

Kawak finds a niche in Firefighting…
Kawak Aviation entered the helicopter firefighting arena, initially with high output electric and hydraulic driven hover pumps. Soon other options for the aviation industry were added to the list.  These were in the form of hydraulic fire tank door controls for two configurations of the Sikorsky S-61 helicopter, followed by the development and certification of a riveted aluminum fire tank for the Kaman Corporation’s K-1200 K-MAX helicopter.

The  K-MAX heli-tanker features the exclusive Kawak Aviation designed 700-gallon fixed-tank system.