DIT-MCO International

DIT-MCO began its evolution shortly after founder George P. Heller incorporated his business that catered to the once-flourishing drive-in theater business in 1948. Drive-In Theater Manufacturing Company, renamed DIT-MCO in 1951, produced theater screens, speakers and other projection equipment. By early 1953, the construction boom of drive-in theaters ebbed and Heller looked for other avenues of revenue. Meanwhile, an enterprising young man named Warren Hannon was working as an engineer at the nearby North American Aviation plant. The plant built the F-86 and C-45 planes. Hannon was in charge of overseeing the electrical cable testing. Hannon got the idea of making a 'universal automatic analyzer' and somehow joined with DIT-MCO to produce the first automatic tester. Thus began the Electronics Division. By 1954, Goodyear purchased the company's first Universal Circuit Analyzer. Shortly thereafter, Boeing purchased one for work on the B-47. This fixed-sequence circuit analyzer, a Model 200, proved to be such a boon to DIT-MCO that by 1959 the Drive-In Theater division was sold to its employees. By that time, the company was known as DIT-MCO. It had become common for the military and its industrial suppliers to say, "This aircraft needs to be DIT-MCOed." DIT-MCO earned brand-name recognition while its engineers helped develop high voltage testing specifications that set the standard for the military and its industrial suppliers.

Supported Manufacturers

Bell, Boeing, Sikorsky