AMIL currently qualifies aircraft ground de/anti-icing fluids for icing protection and aerodynamic performance. AMIL also performs standard tests to assess the environmental compatibility of fluids and their effects on aircraft materials. Testing is performed in accordance to AMS1424 and AMS1428 specifications.

AMIL carries out deicing and anti-icing performance tests and catalytic carbon brake disk oxidation tests on runway and taxiway de/anti-icing products. We also perform standard tests to assess the environmental compatibility of fluids and their effects on aircraft materials. Testing is performed in accordance to AMS1431 and AMS1435 specifications.

Over the past fifteen years, AMIL has also extended its expertise to the evaluation of icephobic coatings under controlled icing conditions. The Centrifuge Adhesion Test (CAT) can be used to determine the relative ice adhesion reduction of a candidate icephobic coating. Since 2002, more than 360 different coatings have been evaluated with this methodology.

AMIL’s facilities are particularly well adapted to run small-scale setups under highly controlled freezing conditions. Over the past twenty years, AMIL has extended its expertise to many R&D fields, namely the simulation of Icing Precipitation for In-flight Icing, Offshore Icing, and Icing on Aircraft Parts and Devices. AMIL also currently leads projects on Anti-Slip Performance and Green Energy.