History
- 1934: Cobham was founded as Flight Refuelling Limited (FRL) by Sir Alan Cobham at RAF Ford in Sussex.
- Shortly after the outbreak of World War II: FRL moved to Tarrant Rushton in Dorset.
- 1948: FRL was the first contractor to join the Berlin airlift.
- 1949: FRL developed the 'probe and drogue' method of air-to-air refuelling.
- 1970s: FRL transferred its aerial operations to Hurn Airport.
- 1996: ML Aviation took over Nash & Thompson, a major competitor.
- September 1997: Cobham bought ML Aviation.
- 2008: Cobham purchases S-TEC Corporation, maker of general aviation autopilots for $38 million.
- February 2008: Cobham bought the sensor and antenna systems division of BAE Systems for $240 million.
- June 2008 Cobham acquired Sparta Inc., a US defence business, for $416 million. It was renamed Cobham Analytic Solutions.
- September 2008: Cobham completed the purchase of the radio frequency components business of M/A-COM for $425 million.
- Early 2009, National Jet Systems renamed itself as Cobham (known as Cobham Aviation Services Australia or CAvSA) in line with a global Cobham rebranding initiative by its parent company Cobham plc.
- April 2009: Cobham agreed to purchase Argotek Inc., a provider of high-end information assurance services to the United States Intelligence Community, for $36 million.
- June 2009: A Cobham - Northrop Grumman 50-50 joint venture won the U.S. Army's US$2.4 billion competition to supply Vehicular Intercom Systems.
- October 2011: Cobham Analytic Solutions sold for $350 million to the privately owned Parsons Corporation.
- June 2012: Cobham acquires Danish satellite communications company Thrane & Thrane A/S, delisting the company and making it the core of Cobham's new SATCOM strategic business unit (SBU), to include SeaTel marine, TracStar land and Omnipless airborne SATCOM product lines. Cobham SATCOM will be headquartered in Denmark and led by former Thrane & Thrane CEO Walter Thygesen, now the vice president of Cobham SATCOM.
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