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 systems 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.
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Air Rover, Inc.’s vision is to be recognized as a leader in portable air conditioners and environmental control units manufacturing. With a friendly atmosphere, employee discipline, and management's commitment to excellence, we will continue to strive for improvement, growth, and expansion of our manufacturing line while maintaining high business and ethical standards for the benefit of our customers and employees.
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Air Rover’s facilities include 140,000 square feet of corporate offices, engineering design and research department, test chambers, precision sheet metal fabrication, high-capacity production lines, machine shops and product exhibition rooms. The original building was part of a World War II military training facility called Camp Fannan. Today, the facility is used to manufacture portable air conditioners and military-grade environmental control units that keep all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces cool in the world’s hottest climates.
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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. Twenty-five years later, Air Rover’s portable air conditioners and environmental control units are now on an ongoing Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) GSA Contract GS-21F-0090H. In the early 1990’s Air Rover’s engineers 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 offices, factory hot spots and many more. With an extensive background in systemized rooftop accessories, engineers at Air Rover excel at designing and integrating systemized accessories for standard installations (i.e. Ceiling Package, Window/Wall Package, and Roof Package) or special projects requiring special transitions for adapting the cooling systems to enclosed conveyers, electrical test panels, computer or communications equipment. Optional duct transitions are available on all models which allow single or multiple duct transitions for customers’ special cooling requirements.
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