PLEXIGLAS® Aircraft Materials

PLEXIGLAS^® for Aircraft Transparencies

highest optical quality
very good aging resistance
highly transparent
high UV resistance

Lightweight Construction

Weight also plays a substantial role when it comes to aircraft glazing. For decades, PLEXIGLAS^® GS has been the material of choice for such glazing, due to its excellent optical and mechanical properties combined with low specific weight.
Typical applications are cabin windows, cockpit, glider and helicopter glazings, and canopies and windshields for fighter planes.

PLEXIGLAS^® Aircraft Transparencies
Grade	Properties	Typical Application
PLEXIGLAS^® GS 241	is a grade of cast acrylic tested to high optical standards for glazing that does not specify material certified to any particular aviation standard UV transmittance less than 1 % can be supplied in both clear-transparent and transparent colored grades	ultralight (ULA) and very light (VLA) aircraft
PLEXIGLAS^® GS 245	is a cast acrylic with unsurpassed weather resistance specially developed to meet the high optical requirements of the aviation industry UV transmittance less than 1 % can be supplied in both clear-transparent and transparent colored grades	helicopter canopies, glider canopies, sports plane glazing and ultralights
PLEXIGLAS^® GS 249	is another cast acrylic specially developed to meet even higher demands by the aviation industry, but is additionally crosslinked offers higher resistance to media that cause stress cracking and a higher heat deflection temperature is also excellently suited for stretching, which makes it possible to improve its properties even further over the unstretched state	cabin windows in civil aircraft, glazing for pressurized aircraft cabins, cockpit glazing, canopies and windshields