Owner Stephen H. Cannaby was born in Cambridge, England as a US Air Force dependant of a 24 year career Air Force serviceman that had taken his family to live in eight different states and two countries. Cannaby contributes his passion and enthusiasm of aviation started at the age of twelve while stationed at Ellsworth AFB, SD when he road along with the maintenance crew for the ultimate taxi ride in the cockpit of a B-52. He spent a couple years in the US Army after high school then attended the Wichita Aviation Center studying aircraft instruments. After working in the fast growing aviation instrument repair industry for nearly ten years, Cannaby decided it was time to establish a repair shop that could specialize solely in gyroscopes.

In 1987, Cannaby started a little aviation gyro repair shop called Nu-Tek Aircraft Instrument Repair at The Augusta Municipal Airport. By 1989, Nu-Tek Aircraft Instrument Repair became Nu-Tek Aircraft Instruments, Inc. and it was starting to out grow its facilities. Then in 1992, Nu-Tek Aircraft Instruments, Inc. moved from The Augusta Municipal Airport to the town of Augusta. Then, Nu-Tek Aircraft Instruments, Inc. moved again after the Flood of 1998 forced them out of that building. Now they are located in rural Augusta, where they had a new building constructed after the flood.