For Immediate Release

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Securaplane has been awarded a contract for reliability improvement from 
Northwest Airlines on their DC-9 fleet of airplanes.

On March 1, 1996,  Securaplane was informed that they had won a program 
for replacing the standard battery charger and main ship batteries on 
the DC-9 fleet of aircraft for Northwest Airlines.

The program will include:

a.	Development and production of a new "intelligent" charger that 
will include substantial battery health monitoring capabilities.  
SAFT and Securaplane are jointly developing the optimum charging 
algorithm for the ULM, as well as non-ULM, batteries.

b.	Delivery of the new SAFT Ultra Low Maintenance (ULM) nickel 
cadmium battery. The ULM battery has a 2500 hour maintenance interval.

The design will feature high reliability solid state AC to DC 
conversion, elimination of bulky transformers and incorporate 
microprocessor-based diagnostics. The charger will be capable of 
determining whether the battery or charger itself is at fault.

The contract is for the Northwest Airlines fleet of DC-9 aircraft and 
covers approximately 120 aircraft.

Securaplane is a designer and manufacturer of emergency power and 
electrical systems as well as electronic aircraft security systems. 
Securaplane is based in Tucson, Arizona.


For more information contact Securaplane at:
10800 N. Mavinee Dr.
Tucson, AZ 85737
Phone: 520-297-0844 FAX: 520-498-4924

Or look us up on the web at:
www.securplane.com