Aviation

We are the manufacturer.

Our over 55 years of design and manufacturing capabilities allow us to have complete control over yield, quality, and adherence to strict testing, as well as offer a wide range of standard and custom colors, finishes, and textures. 

Elevate your design,

your impact, your brand with leather. Our quality, solutions, capabilities, care, and passion for leather. Townsend can elevate any project you are working on.

Aviation Preferred

We have long been the industry leader and a preferred manufacturer of high-performance, high-quality, and extensive offerings in the Aviation industry.

AS9100 Certified

Quality comes from a dedicated and continually improved system. Townsend Leather has been achieving the highest of quality with our AS9100D quality management system certification since 2012.

Townsend Leather is certified quality.

In-Stock Leathers

Leathers that give you the time to focus on your love of design.

All our in-stock hides are flame-treated and meet industry standards for performance and burn certification. These excellent yield large 55-60 SF hides are available for immediate shipment, ready to ship in 3-5 business days.

Small Custom Dye Lots

As the manufacturer, we can craft dye lots for any project. As small as a 1 hide order to a full aircraft or larger, we work with you for any custom needs, and we make it easy.

Color Matching Experts

Townsend is the industry leader in color matching and perfecting your color. With decades od hands on experience combined with the most cutting-edge technology, there is no color we can’t match.

Any flammability requirement, done.

All Townsend Leather products are inherently flameproof and we can produce the leather to meet or exceed any flammability requirement.

Superior Durability

Need your leather to withstand high wear and tear? We can do that. High-performance rated leather with superior durablity are a specialty of ours. Leather already lasts 4xs longer than vinyl and other textiles, but we can engineer it to last even longer.

Good for you, good for the earth.

Unlike vinyl and other materials, our leather is never made with PVC, ethylene, chlorine, or crude oil. 

Townsend’s leather is made with water-based chemicals, vegetable-re-tanning agents, and low-energy, hand-crafted manufacturing.

A solution for any leather need, any price point, and design dream.

A lasting, high-performance upholstery material, leather pays for itself over time and is more than able to meet the demands of the aviation industry.

Not only is our leather durable and luxurious, but it is also able to be customized for each design, perfectly color-matched, enhanced with hand-rubs, shimmering foils, embossed patterns, Quilted, perforated, and even cut into your specific patterns.

Townsend’s leather meets or exceeds all performance, weight, and FAA Flammability standards.  

With Townsend Leather, you can let your imagination fly.

For more information on our aviation capabilities and offerings, please email: info@townsendleather.com.