Western Gear was sold to Lucas Industries.

The British aerospace firm paid $88.8 million for Western Gear, a unit of Milwaukee-based Becor Western. A conditional contract for the cash sale was signed last February. Western Gear employs about 1,700 people in North Dakota and California, and had sales of $154 million in 1986. The firm operates its applied technology division in City of Industry and its electrosystems division in Brea. Western Gear builds helicopter transmissions, flap actuators and airborne winches for military and commercial aircraft.