NAICS 2022 · in 33451
334511
Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
Analysis
NAICS 334511 is the 2022 national industry for search, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical system and instrument manufacturing, part of 33451 (Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing). Census lists 58 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 522 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 127,864 people at an average annual payroll of $111,528 per employee (88th percentile of national industries). 23% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include acceleration indicators and systems components, aerospace…, aeronautical systems and instruments manufacturing, aeronautical systems and instruments overhauling… and air traffic control radar systems and equipment…, among 58 in all.
Its goods appear in 37 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 9014 (direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments…), 8529 (parts suitable for use solely or principally with the…) and 8526 (radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
For example, manufacturing global positioning system (GPS) equipment are classified in 334220 (Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing) instead.
Census lists 2 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 334220 and 334519. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing search, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical systems and instruments. Examples of products made by these establishments are aircraft instruments (except engine), flight recorders, navigational instruments and systems, radar systems and equipment, and sonar systems and equipment.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing global positioning system (GPS) equipment | 334220 Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing aircraft engine instruments and meteorological systems and equipment | 334519 Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing |
Index entries (58)
- Acceleration indicators and systems components, aerospace type, manufacturing
- Aeronautical systems and instruments manufacturing
- Aeronautical systems and instruments overhauling, conversion, or rebuilding
- Air traffic control radar systems and equipment manufacturing
- Airborne navigational systems manufacturing
- Aircraft flight instruments (except engine instruments) manufacturing
- Airframe equipment instruments manufacturing
- Airspeed instruments (aeronautical) manufacturing
- Altimeters, aeronautical, manufacturing
- Angle-of-attack instrumentation manufacturing
- Angle-of-yaw instrumentation manufacturing
- Artificial horizon instrumentation manufacturing
- Bank and turn indicators and components (aeronautical instruments) manufacturing
- Cabin environment indicators, transmitters, and sensors manufacturing
- Compasses, gyroscopic and magnetic (except portable), manufacturing
- Countermeasure sets (e.g., active countermeasures, jamming equipment) manufacturing
- Distance measuring equipment (DME), aeronautical, manufacturing
- Driftmeters, aeronautical, manufacturing
- Electronic guidance systems and equipment manufacturing
- Fathometers manufacturing
- Fish finders (i.e., sonar) manufacturing
- Flight and navigation sensors, transmitters, and displays manufacturing
- Flight recorders (i.e., black boxes) manufacturing
- Glide slope instrumentation manufacturing
- Gyrocompasses manufacturing
- Gyrogimbals manufacturing
- Gyroscopes manufacturing
- Heads-up display (HUD) systems, aeronautical, manufacturing
- Horizon situation instrumentation manufacturing
- HUD (heads-up display) systems, aeronautical, manufacturing
- Hydrophones manufacturing
- Inertial navigation systems, aeronautical, manufacturing
- Infrared homing systems, aeronautical, manufacturing
- Instrument landing system instrumentation, airborne or airport, manufacturing
- Instruments, aeronautical, manufacturing
- Light reconnaissance and surveillance systems and equipment manufacturing
- Machmeters manufacturing
- Nautical systems and instruments manufacturing
- Navigational instruments manufacturing
- Omnibearing instrumentation manufacturing