A Brief Historical Perspective of Air Rover, Inc.by Kelly Stiles The Founding Family:The Stiles family founded Air Rover, Inc. in 1986. Jack L. Stiles, formerly of Stiles Corporation in Irving, TX, brought an extensive background of air conditioning manufacturing and rooftop accessory manufacturing. Roof curbs, plenums, economizers, and single point air distribution (concentric diffusers) were packaged with major brand air conditioners such as York, Carrier, Trane, Rheem, Tappan, and Day & Night. Stiles' integrated roof top accessories were used on all of Southland Corporation's 7-11 stores, Pillsbury's, and Bennigan's Taverns. Even Wal-Mart and Sam's wholesale club stores utilize rooftop accessories that originated at Stiles Corporation in Irving, TX. When Jack Stiles passed away in 2004, his wife, Francis Stiles, became the owner and President of Air Rover, Inc. Air Rover's Facilities:Air Rover's facilities include 140,000 square feet of precision sheet metal fabrication and high-speed product lines. The original building was part of a World War II military training facility called Camp Fannan. Today, the facility is used to manufacture military ECUs that keep all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces cool in the world's hottest climates.  Innovation at Work: Air Rover developed the first air-cooled (condenser) portable air conditioners manufactured in the U.S.A. Air Rover's slow and steady growth was funded via the largest SBA backed loan ever secured in Tyler, TX. Soon after Air Rover began its manufacturing operation in Tyler, TX it was awarded a New Item Introductory contract by the General Services Administration. Eighteen years later, Air Rover's portable air conditioners and military environmental control units are now an ongoing Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) GSA Contract GS-21F-0090H. In the early 1990's Air Rover's engineering team concentrated on Environmental Control Units (ECUs) designed to cool command centers for the J-Star program built by Motorola and used in operation Desert Storm. Since that time, Air Rover, Inc. has continued product development in its core business of refrigerated portable air conditioners widely used in computer rooms, telephone equipment rooms, factory workstations, process cooling, and other office and factory hot spots.