Rockwell Collins

Rockwell Collins, Inc. was a supplier of avionics and information technology systems for commercial and military aircraft, headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the United States. It was formed in 2001 when Rockwell International spun it off and listed it on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker COL. Its roots go back to the Collins Radio Company, founded in 1933 by Arthur A. Collins and acquired by Rockwell International in 1973. Collins Radio communication equipment flew on the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab missions, which is its link to spaceflight. The company built flight decks such as Pro Line Fusion, flight controls, communication systems and in-flight entertainment, and sold to the FAA, NASA, Boeing, Airbus and the US military. It employed about 31,200 people in 2018, when United Technologies Corporation acquired it and merged it with UTC Aerospace Systems to form Collins Aerospace, now part of RTX Corporation.