EXHIBIT 5.1
 
                            [SPOLIN & SILVERMAN LLP]
 
                            [Date of Issuance], 1999
 
DeCrane Aircraft Holdings, Inc.
2361 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 180
El Segundo, California 90245
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
We have acted as counsel to DeCrane Aircraft Holdings, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), in connection with the Company's offer to exchange
its 12% Series B Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008 for any and all of its
outstanding 12% Series A Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008, and the preparation
and filing by the Company of a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the
"Registration Statement") under the Securities Act of 1933, for the registration
of the Series B notes, which are guaranteed by certain of the Company's
subsidiaries. We have examined and are familiar with originals or copies,
certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such documents,
corporate records, certificates of public officials and officers of the Company
and such other instruments as we have deemed necessary or appropriate as a basis
for the opinions expressed below, including the Registration Statement, the
Certificate of Incorporation of the Company and the By-laws of the Company.
 
Based on the foregoing and assuming the due execution and delivery of the Series
B notes and guarantees, we are of the opinion that, when the Series B notes and
guarantees are executed, authenticated and delivered in exchange for the Series
A notes in accordance with the above exchange offer, the Series B notes will be
valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with
their terms, and the guarantees of the subsidiary guarantors contained therein
will be valid and binding obligations of such guarantors enforceable in
accordance with their terms, in each case except (1) as such enforcement may be
limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance or similar laws
affecting creditors' rights generally, (2) as such enforcement may be limited by
general principles of equity, regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a
proceeding at law or in equity and (3) to the extent that a waiver of rights
under any usury or stay law may be unenforceable.
 
   
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement. We also consent to the reference to us in the prospectus
contained in such Registration Statement. We are members of the bar of the State
of California.
    
 
The foregoing opinion is rendered as of the date hereof, and we assume no
obligation to update such opinion to reflect any facts or circumstances which
may hereafter come to my attention or any changes in the law which may hereafter
occur. This opinion may not be relied upon by you for any other purpose or
relied upon by or furnished to any other person without our prior written
consent, except that the holders of the notes, and State Street Bank and Trust
Co., as trustee for the notes and exchange agent, may rely on this opinion as if
addressed to them directly.
 
                                           Very truly yours,
 

                                
                                              /s/ SPOLIN & SILVERMAN LLP
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