Trans-Pacific Aerospace Company, Inc. reported that the U.S. Navy has completed tests of spherical bearings made by its China subsidiary under SAE Aerospace Standard 81820. The company announced that the bearings made by Godfrey Guangzhou Aerospace Bearings, a wholly owned foreign enterprise of Godfrey (China) Limited, Trans-Pacific Aerospace Company's 25% owned subsidiary, demonstrated performance beyond technical specifications. NAVAIR, the U.S. Navy qualification agency for SAE aerospace parts, conducted certification procedures that included dynamic tests for radial static limit load, axial static limit load, oscillation under radial load, no load rotational breakaway torque, fluid contamination, sub zero temperature, bond integrity and peel strength.

The company announced that Jason Arnold and Clairmont Griffith were named to Trans-Pacific Aerospace's board of directors. Arnold has nearly 25 years of experience in the aerospace industry, regularly conducting business with such companies as Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier and Embraer. Griffith is an entrepreneur, and is currently chief of pre-operative services and chairman of the department of anesthesiology at Howard University Hospital. He is also a professor at Howard University College of Medicine.