Aerco announces that its founder, Bill Laughton, has died

Aerco’s founder, Bill Laughton, passed away on September 8^th following a short illness.

Bill, who was 88, formed Aerco (Aviation Electrical and Radio Company) in a small, wooden workshop in Horsham in 1956.  Initially installing radio equipment into aircraft, the company rapidly developed its engineering and technical capability and a stock-holding and distribution service.

The running of the company was handed over to his son, Rob Laughton, in 2000 and Bill then concentrated his energies in setting up a co-axial sourcing service in Aerco to help customers overcome delivery problems on coaxial connectors. 

He worked every day until the week before he died and saw Aerco develop into a major specialist electrical and electronics distributor with an annual turnover in excess of £13 million.