Alenia Aeronautica

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name = Alenia Aeronautica S.p.A.

type = Private Subsidiary
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foundation = 1990
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location_city = Rome
location_country = Italy
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industry = Aerospace and defence
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parent = Finmeccanica
divisions = Alenia Aermacchi Alenia Aeronavali Alenia Composite Alenia SIA Quadrics
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homepage = [http://www.alenia-aeronautica.it www.alenia-aeronautica.it]
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Alenia Aeronautica is an aerospace engineering corporation in Italy, a subsidiary of Finmeccanica.

Alenia is one of the partner companies of the Eurofighter consortium, Eurofighter GmbH and also the Panavia Tornado consortium. The company builds aerostructures and components for a wide range of civil aircraft including the Boeing and Airbus families.

Alenia Aeronautica's main activities include design and production of commercial and military aircraft, design and production of aerostructures for military and civil aircraft and - through Aeronavali, a wholly owned company - the overhaul, maintenance and modification of military and civil aircraft.

The company, fully owned by Finmeccanica, is headed by Giorgio Zappa, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and has its registered office in Pomigliano d'Arco (Naples).

Alenia Aeronautica is a partner of and cooperates with the major aerospace groups, such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Airbus, EADS, Dassault and BAE Systems.

History

In 1969, Italian aircraft manufacturers Fiat and Aerfer merged, creating Aeritalia. In 1990 Aeritalia was merged with Selenia of Finmeccanica group and they created Alenia.

The Pentagon selected the C-27J as its Joint Cargo Aircraft. [http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/06/defense_JCA_070613/ "C-27J tapped for Joint Cargo Aircraft"] , Air Force Times, June 14, 2007.] A contract worth US$2.04 billion was awarded to the L-3 Communications team for 78 C-27Js along with training and support on June 13, 2007. [http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123057181 C-27J Spartan named as Joint Cargo Aircraft] ]

Products

*Alenia G.222

Joint ventures

*C-27J Spartan
*AMX International AMX
*ATR 42
*ATR 72
*Eurofighter Typhoon

Subsidiaries

Quadrics

Quadrics is a wholly owned Alenia Aeronautica company that develops and supplies hardware and software for High Performance Computing. Quadrics' products are QsNet, a proprietary interconnect used in the some of the fastest supercomputers in the world and QsTenG, a range of switches based on 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard.

Collaborations

* Eurofighter with EADS and BAE Systems
* AMX International with Embraer
* Dassault Aviation (among others) for the nEUROn Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle
* Global Aeronautica, LLC (50%, with Vought ) — for the Boeing 787

See also

* Alenia Difesa
* Alenia Marconi Systems
* Boeing 787
* Finmeccanica
* Thales Alenia Space, ex-Alenia Spazio and ex-Alcatel Alenia Space

References

External links

* [http://www.alenia-aeronautica.it Alenia Aeronautica official website]