Designs and manufactures high-power solid-state RF transmitters in Nova Scotia, including non-directional beacon navigation-aid systems used by airports and airstrips worldwide.
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Designs and manufactures high-power solid-state RF transmitters in Nova Scotia, including non-directional beacon navigation-aid systems used by airports and airstrips worldwide.
Head office and manufacturing at 10089 Peggy's Cove Road, Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia, established 1969 with over 200 employees. nautel.com
Says it invented the world's first solid-state high-power radio beacon transmitter in 1970, and has shipped thousands of non-directional beacon systems for airports and airstrips. nautelnav.com
States roughly 85% of FAA Alaska's non-directional beacon equipment is Nautel. At Bahawalpur Airport an ND500 replaced an obsolete Aerocom beacon, in a story written by the customer. nautelnav.com
Joined Babcock Canada's Team INSPIRE consortium in June 2026 to supply VLF and LF transmission hardware for Canadian Armed Forces strategic communications. A teaming arrangement, not an award. nautelnav.com
Aviation is one line of a broader business: its transmitters also serve radio broadcast, maritime navigation, sonar and industrial RF. The airport navaid line is what earns the sector tag. nautel.com
Acquired Kenta, a French RF-communications maker in Quimper, expanding its maritime portfolio. Its own release is internally inconsistent on the date, headed 2022 but datelined 2021. nautelnav.com
Sister companies Nautel C-Tech and Nautel Capital are separate Nova Scotia corporations. Most federal contracts filed under "Nautel" are C-Tech sonar work and are not this company's. nautel.com
Products Nautel publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
Navigation aid
Land-based non-directional beacon transmitters from 125 W to 2,000 W for airports and airstrips, with antenna tuning units, CL-40, T-20, T-35 and T-50 antennas, remote control and monitoring and beacon monitor receivers. In serial production.
Learn moreHow Nautel says its technology can be deployed and delivered.
Publicly announced partnerships.
Long-standing executed partnership: UrsaNav states it has partnered with NautelNav since 2007 to deliver seventh-generation NL-series transmitters.
Industry teaming and bid consortium announced June 2026 for Canadian Armed Forces strategic radio communications. No contract award is claimed.
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