AIX 2026
Crates are packed, bags are set, we are ready for AIX. Our booth will be a celebration of elevating design with leather, focusing on Townsend’s specific skilled solutions for Aviation… Full Aritcle
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Crates are packed, bags are set, we are ready for AIX.
Our booth will be a celebration of elevating design with leather, focusing on Townsend’s specific skilled solutions for Aviation leather and our passion for sustainability.
FREE!
Do you still need tickets for AIX? You can register for a free visitor badge here: https://www.aircraftinteriorsexpo.com/en-gb/register.html?code=1542460008363494-035
WIN!
Stop by the Townsend booth to enter for your chance to win a Townsend Leather Crossbody Bag!
StandIE40, drop your card for a chance to win!
Drawing will take place on Wednesday, April 15th at 3:00
TOWNSEND LEATHER TO EXHIBIT AT AIRCRAFT INTERIORS EXPO 2026 IN BUSINESS JET ZONE WITH PRODUCT OFFERING THAT SPANS ACROSS THE BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL AVIATION MARKETS
Townsend Leather is excited to be displaying at Aircraft Interiors Expo 2026 at Stand IE40, the first time the company will have a full-sized presence at this show. This location is in the new area focused on the technology, materials, and craftsmanship that shape the VVIP and Business Jet markets.
See our AIX sneek peak and first round excitment
As a manufacturer of high quality upholstery leather for seating and other interior components for decades, Townsend has long been positioned to address the needs of both markets and this show brings the opportunity to meet with customers in both sectors. With industry-low minimum order requirements, custom coloring capabilities, hundreds of embossing patterns and textures, and attention to customers’ specific needs and requirements, Townsend partners with its customers across markets to be a reliable supplier for this important interior product. Furthermore, Townsend also works hand in hand with interior designers to ensure their aesthetic vision is realized with each aircraft specified and provides a wide range of products and related capabilities. During this show, Townsend will be showing full hides appropriate for seating in both commercial and private interiors but also the newest quilted, perforated, digitally-printed, and other decorative and specialty leathers.
Sherry will be in our AIX booth, see her recent feature about the BizJet Interior industry
The Townsend Aviation Sales Team consisting of Sherry Cocker, Kevin Kucel, A.J. Kucel, Ronald Cathey, and Jean-Luc DeLouche will be on hand throughout the event, showing full hides of the most popular leathers for aviation, offering take-away samples, explaining Townsend’s comprehensive offerings and manufacturing capabilities, and taking larger sample requests to stock the libraries, workrooms, and showrooms of our aviation customers.
See our recent feature with EVA magazine, where passionate, educated, expert, Sarah Eckler talks sustainablity, production, and all things leather.
As we celebrate Women’s History Month and women’s empowerment, we are proud to have our own Sherry Cocker featured in this recent article.
Flying forward: the women shaping BizJet interiors
Sherry has over 30 years experience in leather, interiors, and aircraft. She has been inspiring our team internally for just as long.
When the article was shared around by her fans at Townsend, it was met with lots of praise for her and her words, one comment especially stood out:
“This was so great to read. Sherry was my first boss when I started at Townsend Leather, and I learned so much from her about the importance of relationships and how to truly support customers. It’s wonderful to see her recognized here and representing Townsend and the BizJet community so well.
Congratulations, Sherry!”
Townsend Leather’s SVP of Sales & Marketing, Sarah Eckler, recently sat down with the fine folks at EVA Magazine to talk leather. Covering production processes, sustainability, history, future, and everything in between.
Townsend is serious about our quality and our sustainability, so any chance we have to talk about it (or anything leather!) – we jump at it.
Sarah is an expert in all things Townsend, with over 25 years at Townsend Leather and a lifetime of leather loving. While the interviewer reached out to multiple folks across the aviation interior industry, they kept coming back to Sarah for the definitive answer and insight.
See the article on EVA’s website: https://evaint.com/issue-article/tough-beautiful-and-sustainable/ or below.
AIX 2025 proved to us that the AIX show is the aircraft show for the future, of the now, of action, of design. It is the place to be and Townsend is glad to be there.
Our 2025 visit proved to be busy and full of new projects, exciting leather discussions, and really valued time with designers, planners, and those who build for the future. So needless to say, we are really looking forward to the AIX aircraft show in Hamburg, Germany, this year!
The AIX Show will be
April 14-16
Townsend will be in booth/stand: 1E40
And we want to see you there! So start making your travel plans now, you have some time to make it happen. It will be worth it! And to help you in your plans, we want to share this FREE VISITOR TICKET link with you:
We know it is going ot be an elevated time of design, aircraft, and leather, so we are looking forward to meeting with you there.
If you do plan to be there, let us know! We want to meet up and chat, info@townsendleather.com
In 2025, we put the extra in extraordinary in so many ways.
And we are so grateful to all of you who helped along the way.
This year was full of new and exciting, visits and trips, connections and growth. It wasn’t always easy battling against the impact of tariffs and economic turmoil, but together, we got through it all and had a memory-making extraordinary year.
The most exciting part for us leather lovers, is the introduction to our newest collection, The Cleopatra Collection. We were able to offer sneak peeks of this at NBAA and BDNY, and will have the full launch of its golden glory out to everyone’s hands early 2026.
Speaking of tradeshows, we loved seeing the business at tradeshows this year, AIX, NBAA, BDNY, so many other shows, visits, and tours… our biggest joy comes from connecting with all of you, the leather-lovers across the world.
One of our favorite ways of connecting and celebrating leather love, is in our partnerships. This year, we had the additional joy of a new Partnership with the incredible folks at JAB in NYC.
Our long-running Partnership with Stacy Garcia in NYC, got an extra special spotlight this year too!
A spotlight of publications was shone on us in other extra ways too, with a Business Jet Interiors spread focusing on Townsend’s sustainability.
And local celebrations and news on the longevity of Townsend.
The publications weren’t just from the outside in to us, we also sent out the newest edition of our By Design periodical.
Our longevity was an extraordinary focus of our year. Every year we take time to pause and celebrate milestone anniversaries, and this year we were humbled to be able to honor Partners who have been with Townsend for 5 years all the way to 45 years.
Our team of leather-loving, big-hearted, hard workers doesn’t just work hard at making the world’s finest leather, we work together at creating a great place. Which we were once again proud to have recognized, with being named a Best Place To Work.
The year was full of heart, of extraordinary moments and memories, and we are grateful for it all. We close this year out with sparkles in our eyes and gold in our hearts as we look forward to a glittering new 2026, and we ask you to join us once again.
Thank you!
Once again, Townsend Leather has been named a BEST PLACE TO WORK by the Albany Business Review!
The Albany Business Review has been honoring companies in the greater capital region with this prestigious award for 22 years, and since Townsend started participating, we have earned the Best Places To Work title for half of those years! We are now at over a decade of being named a Best Place To Work, and are immensely proud of that achievement.
This recognition is hard-earned through employee surveys and comments; it comes from the words and minds of the people who work here every day.
We recently celebrated some of our employees who were celebrating milestone anniversaries at Townsend Leather (https://townsendleather.com/2025/lifestyle/the-heart-of-the-leather-making-region), while at that event, we gave special attention to our heart, something that makes us stand out, something that makes us extra, something that makes us Townsend. We are centered, heart-rooted in the leather making region of New York state, and we are there full hearted as our heart-filled selves. This focus on heart of Townsend Leather, is something that drives us and makes us who we who, and it is a reason we are able to earn recognitions like Best Place to Work – we get there through heart.
The heart of our people doing incredible work, the heart of our team looking out for each other, the heart of our passion at creating greatness together – it shows through in the work we do, the way we create together, and even in the awards we recieve.
We are proud of the recognition; we know it is a rare accomplishment, made even more rare by Townsend being positioned on the outer edges of the Greater Capital Region, and then even more rare yet by Townsend being a manufacturing company, so we do not take this win lightly. We know it matters. We know it is significant. And we know it is a true representation of who we are together, the best.
Whether it was engaging design conversations, sneaking off to a rooftop bar, getting deep into leather and upcoming projects, seeing a giant pigeon, or just getting to be face-to-face with customers, friends, & fans… BDNY 2025 was a delight all around.
With almost non-stop busyness from opening of the show to end, our booth always had something exciting happening. We got to hear about a lot of inspiring builds and upcoming projects, solve some leather dreams, and maybe most exciting of all we got to introduce the design community to our newest leather collection, The Cleopatra Collection!
Our Cleopatra Collection features a stunning variety of leather types and products, but the crowd favorites at BDNY were certainly The Shimmering Suedes, The Prism Cowhides, and the softer-than-soft Precious Calfskins.
Our Cleopatra Collection is nearly ready to sample directly to your hands, but to be sure that you are on the list as one of the first, complete the simple form here: https://townsendleather.com/cleopatra
We love getting to show off our hand-crafted leathers, getting them into the hands, eyes, and hearts of design lovers. Our passion is leather and seeing it come to life in an energetic place like BDNY is such a joy, but the greatest joy we have is the connection with each of you.
If we missed you this year, or the crowd carried you away before you got to explore everything, please reach out to us. We will ship samples, we will answer questions, we will talk leather for hours, we will host you here for a visit and tour… we love making leather dreams come true, info@townsendleather.com
So many stunning leathers to choose from, but the softer-than-soft Precious Calfskin…
the eye-catching, iridescent, Prism Cowhide…
the shimmering, glittering, supple Shimmering Suedes…
and the gotta-hold-it-to-believe-it Lotus Flower Digital Print Cowhide, each were the standouts of the Cleopatra Collection in our BDNY booth.
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