PA´s Announcing system, called PARVA, [PA Recorded Voice Announcer] gained BT Approval in AUGUST of 1986. Followed by DATIS - Digital Air Traffic Information System developed with the UK. C.A.A. National Air Traffic Service for U.K. airports, which first went into service in 1987.
Following the retirement of Derek Cahill (owing to ill health) the company was purchased by Hart Communications (John Hart and Christopher Willis) in JUNE 1990.
PA was awarded RAF DATIS contract in 1992 and won Abbey National Award for Enterprise Development in that same year. Became member of Milton Keynes Industrial Training Group in 1993, also launched the world´s first Digital Interchangeable music-on-hold system - DIMOH in 1993.
PATSI - Real voice synthesis front end for NATO DATIS was released in 1995 and METARVS - Atis messages from AFTN/METARS/SPECIS for U.K NATS in 1996.
In April of 1998 PA moved to it´s current location at Trinity Farm, Stewkley. Surface mount rework, as a joint venture with the music company Evolution Electronics, started in 2003 to the accompanying background of rural sounds - birdsong and bees a´buzzing.
PA Communications Ltd. has been known by it´s customers as PAComms for some years. During the eighties the "boys at the shop" began to refer to their collegues at Crownhill as "PAComms", somehow the name stuck. The "navy guys" used the nickname "PAComms" as a means of differentiation from the corporate PA Consulting Group who provided support for EDDS to which PATSI was connected.
For the past two decades PA´s. main business has been that of a niche supplier to the Military Air Traffic Control market. DATIS is still going strong, being the high reliability kit which PA manufactures in the UK and supports around the world.