METALITE AVIATION LIGHTING

Metalite Aviation Lighting - Market leaders in the design and manufacture of portable landing lights and portable landing light trailers suitable for use with fixed and rotary wing aircraft. Metalite Aviation Lighting is part of a group that has been supplying quality products to demanding customers since the 1920s. Metalite has specialised in the design and manufacture of portable runway, helipad and airfield landing lights. The UK RAF's first portable landing light - the LE58 - designed by Metalite. Metalite's first battery powered light was the LE58, a portable airfield landing light designed in the 1960s to meet a specific requirement of the UK Royal Air Force. This landing light incorporated the best technology of the time for both its batteries, sealed lead acid, and its light source, cold cathode. The specification of the landing light was soon expanded to include photocell and radio control with a later version able to operate continuously by coupling individual landing lights by cable to a generator power source. Soon afterwards, to meet a requirement of the Singapore Air Force Metalite's first portable airfield landing light trailer was designed containing LE58s and generator powered PAPIs. The UK RAF went on to equip all of its bases with the LE58. From this initial requirement of the British Air Force the LE58 developed into the international standard for portable airfield landing lights for both military and civil operators. It has outsold all other portable airfield lights and continues to be supplied today, still being used on all five continents