Champion developments to extend life in the turbine igniter design include optimized use of precious metals, super alloys, coatings, air-cooled tip designs, fuel drain slots (which keep the igniter from quenching) and high temperature sealing features to survive today’s extreme combustor conditions. Champion also uses engobe semi-conductive/solid body semiconductor materials for more reliable response to difficult starting conditions.
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Champion brand leads are designed and constructed to offer the most effective and efficient conduit between the engine exciter and igniter. They offer higher delivered energy than similarly constructed competitive brands, with less flashover, greater shielding, and increased airflow in air-cooled leads. Champion’s air-cooled ignition leads feature patented designs that will assure maximum cooling airflow throughout the service life of the lead and longest on-wing life capability when installed with Champion designed igniters.
Champion Aerospace manufactures a broad range of high-performance inductive or capacitive discharge ignition exciters in configurable, customer driven designs. Compared to automotive or aviation reciprocating ignition systems, the spark energy discharge of a turbine ignition system is significantly larger- In some cases, the spark is over 100 times higher energy than the spark in an automobile or aviation reciprocating engine.
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Satair and Champion Aerospace Sign Multi-year Distribution Agreement
MRO Americas, Atlanta, GA, USA, 9 April 2025 – Satair, an Airbus Services company, and Champion Aerospace, a global leader in aerospace ignition and power systems, have officially signed a multi-year distribution agreement, extending their successful 40-year partnership. This new agreement reaffirms their collaboration on the global distribution of Champion’s turbine engine ignition products.
