Aviation Oxygen Cylinders & Aerospace COPVs

Lightweight Pressure Vessels for Aviation & Life-Support Systems

Aircraft systems benefit directly from reducing pressure-vessel mass while maintaining reliability and serviceability. Steelhead supports aviation oxygen, emergency breathing, pneumatic, fire-suppression and other stored-gas applications with Type III and Type I pressure vessels, plus testing and requalification expertise.

Relevant Steelhead Solutions.

Choose a starting point, then review the configuration around the program.

Scout compact carbon-fiber COPV with its original metallic port.

Compact Type III COPVs

Lightweight aerospace pressure storage

Review compact composite platforms around mass, packaging and the application’s stored-gas requirements.

Explore Type III platforms

Sentry compact Type I aluminum vessel with a red protective port cap.

Type I Aluminum Vessels

All-metal aerospace architecture

Evaluate Citadel where compatible pressure ranges and interfaces favor an aluminum pressure-retaining shell.

Explore Type I platforms

Composite pressure vessel fitted with strain-gauge leads in the test enclosure.

Testing & Requalification

Program-specific verification

Qualification support, inspection and requalification pathways for applicable aviation pressure-vessel systems.

Explore testing support

Aircraft oxygen, emergency breathing, high-pressure pneumatics, fire suppression and other stored-gas systems have application-specific requirements. Confirm the contents, configuration, inspection requirements and approval basis with Steelhead.

Steelhead aviation hardware; representative configurations, not to scale. — Scout, Keep and Sentry pressure-vessel platforms. Representative configurations, not to scale; no aircraft approval is implied.

Program-focused engineering

Review the Vessel and the Service Requirements Together.

Pressure-vessel selection includes more than mass and volume. Start with the gas, operating environment, system interfaces, service life and qualification requirements, then establish the appropriate inspection and test path.

Engineering & Development Testing & Qualification

Start With the Mission Requirements.

Share the pressure, gas or fluid, volume, envelope, mass target, operating environment, interfaces, qualification basis, quantities and schedule. Steelhead can help identify an existing platform or define a development path.

Application & contents: The mission, gas or fluid, and intended function.
Pressure & volume: Operating pressure, stored volume and duty cycle.
Mass & packaging: The available envelope, mass target, ports and mounting.
Environment & qualification: Operating environment, qualification basis and applicable requirements.
Hardware & quantities: Prototype needs and anticipated production quantities.
Program schedule: Development milestones and target delivery dates.