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The TGH
maintenance
hangar serves the
company's general
aviation customers,
from amateurbuilt experimental
airplanes like this
Van's Aircraft RV-4
to helicopters and
business jets.

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time. The two men had known each
other by reputation for years, said Anderson, who is 11 years junior to Oxley.
"We were really good friends because
we'd done a lot of business together." A
native New Yorker and an engineer, Anderson was general manager of Tech-Air
Instruments in Wichita, a position preceded by engineering stints at Telephonics Corp. and Gull Airborne Electronics,
both in New York.
With his contract at Tech-Air coming
to an end, Anderson was heading back
to New York until "Emery convinced me
to come out here to California," he said.
TGH was still The Gyro House, a solid
general aviation company with strong
finances and four or five employees,
Anderson remembers. "My background

was in commercial and military aviation," areas in which Oxley wanted to
expand. With a shared goal, Anderson
accepted Oxley's offer to join the company as its chief engineer. Working as
a team, Anderson said, "he put up the
financial backing, I brought the knowledge and connections, and we just built
it from there."
In the process, the two families became really close, which doesn't seem
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burn, which had a population of 13,330
in 2010. "My children were quite young
at the time, and so were his, and they
became friends," said Anderson, adding
that "Emery is 11 years older than I am;
he'll be 72 this year, and I just turned
60."
It took Anderson a year to build
TGH's first Fuel Flow Overhaul Lab.
At the same time, Oxley expanded the
company's GA business into GPS, offering these now ubiquitous navigation
systems for sale and installation as soon
as they hit the market. In 1992, McDonnell Douglas sought help in replacing a
power control switch in the cockpits of
its aging DC-8 fleet, a request that led
to TGH's first FAA-PMA part approval
in 1992.
That same year, The Gyro House
landed its first U.S. Air Force contract to
overhaul the fuel flow transmitters on its
KC-135 fleet. It was then they began referring to the company as TGH Aviation,
because The Gyro House no longer defined its diverse capabilities and services
to general, commercial and military aviation. As the 20th century marched toward its conclusion, TGH added a third
fuel flow calibration test stand and added
an original line of power switches, flap
position indicators for the DC-10/MD11, low-voltage warning lights and undersea oxygen controller systems.
In 1995, Oxley acquired a library of
more than 20,000 aircraft instrument
maintenance manuals from a closed
military base at a Starman Brothers
Auction, according to Anderson. "We
went through and cataloged all of it; it
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