Acquisitions

We buy to run, not to flip.

Our family held its first aerospace company into its sixtieth year. We ran the second for seven and stayed on its successor's board for four more. If you've spent a career building a shop, that's the kind of buyer you're probably hoping exists.

What we're looking for

Fit over size.

We acquire aerospace MRO businesses, FAA-certificated repair and overhaul capability with a real customer base, and precision-manufacturing companies that complement our experience and northeast Oklahoma's manufacturing base: machining, finishing, and processes that belong under one roof with ours.

What matters: certificated capability, customers who stay, and a solid team.

We favor northeast Oklahoma and the region around it, but capability travels.

Why sellers talk to us

We've sat where you're sitting.

We've been the seller, to a Berkshire Hathaway company and to private equity. We know what it feels like to hand over something with your family's name on it, and what a seller values: the people, the customers, the company history.

We have also been the buyer, for forty years: a sister company founded in 1985, a California coatings business in 1999, two Ontario metal finishers in 2006 and 2008, a powder manufacturer in Houston, and a joint venture in Querétaro. Then Mingo Aerospace in 2013, Cherry Creek Machine in 2025, and OK Autonomous founded the same year.

We move with our own capital: no fund, no LPs, no investment committee. A conversation with us is a conversation with the people who will own and run the business. And your shop wouldn't be absorbed into an anonymous platform: it would join a family operation that is actively investing in machinery, technology, and people, with a new campus rising to prove it.

When we say we build capability, we mean it literally. At Mingo we added a thermal spray line that grew into worldwide landing gear repair work, and we grew an FAA PMA and DER engineering group from one engineer in 2017 into one of the larger ones in the MRO industry.

Rendering of the interior of the owner-operated building at Peoria-Mohawk Business Park
ROOM TO GROW INTO · PEORIA-MOHAWK · RENDER BY GH2 ARCHITECTS
How it works

Three steps, no theater.

STEP 01

Write to us.

A few lines about your business: what it does, roughly what it earns, why you're thinking about a transition. No banker required, no deck required. Everything stays confidential.

STEP 02

Talk to the owners.

If there's a fit, you'll talk directly with the people who would own and operate the business, not an associate running a screen. We'll tell you quickly and honestly if we're not the right buyer.

STEP 03

Decide without pressure.

If it moves forward, we work at your pace, with terms in plain language. And if it doesn't, you've lost an hour and gained a straight answer, sellers we've passed on still call us back.

If you own a shop and are thinking about what's next.

When you write, it goes to the owners, it stays confidential, and you'll hear back within days, not quarters.

WRITE TO US DIRECTLY
INFO@BAKDEVELOPMENT.COM · TULSA, OKLAHOMA