Northwest Aerospace News June | July 2019 Issue No. 9 | Page 56

Making a Case For Protecting Aerospace Products By Patrick Sherman, Cascade Chapter Board of Directors Member, Association Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Patrick Sherman AUVSI Cascade Chapter Board of Directors Member https://www.auvsi.org AUVSI SPOTLIGHT 56 G enerally, saying that a business is underwater will not be taken as a compliment, but that is literally where Bauer Cases began. “My father and I started the business back in 1993, selling oceanographic equipment — underwater cameras, sonar systems — that sort of thing,” explained Kurt Bauer, who owns the company. “We started making custom cases for those products until eventually we were selling more cases than gear, so we transitioned to exclusively making cases.” NORTHWEST AEROSPACE NEWS