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'Garrett Turbochargers' is the title brand of Honeywell Turbo Technologies, a subsidiary of Honeywell Corporation based in Torrance, California, USA. Formerly a turboprop engine manufacturer, Garrett manufactures turbocharger components for the automobile and truck industry.
Garrett has manufacturing facilities and design offices in America and Canada.
Cliff Garrett founded a company in 1936 which came to be known as 'Garrett AiResearch' or simply 'AiResearch'. The Company's first product was an oil cooler for military aircraft. In World War II, the Company produced the cabin pressure system for the B-29 Bomber, the first production aircraft to be pressurized for high altitude flying. By the end of World War II, AiResearch engineers had developed air expansion cooling turbines for America's first jet aircraft -- the Lockheed F-80. Garrett AiResearch designed and produced a wide range of military and industrial products for aerospace and general industry. AiResearch focused on fluid controls and hydraulics, avionics, foil bearings, turbochargers, aircraft engines, environmental control systems for aircraft and spacecraft, and other products. In the 1960s, AiResearch Environmental control Systems provided the life supporting atmosphere for American astronauts in the projects Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab.
In 1968, after a merger with Signal Oil, Garrett became part of Signal Companies. In the mid-1980s, Signal merged with Allied Chemical & Dye, and became AlliedSignal, becoming an automotive, aerospace and engineering company. The Garrett Aviation division was sold to General Electric in 1997 and is now part of 'Landmark Aviation'. AlliedSignal merged with Honeywell in 1999, where the turbocharger business resides today.

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★ Honeywell Turbo Technologies

★ Garrett Aviation, now Landmark Aviation after a 2004 merger

★ Garrett Turbochargers