Alenia Aeronautica

Alenia Aeronautica was an air and space company of the Italian Finmeccanica Group. It emerged in the early 1990s by the merger of the companies Aeritalia and Selenia. On January 1, 2012 Alenia Aeronautica was merged from its parent company Finmeccanica, Alenia Aermacchi Aermacchi to.

History

Aeritalia

Aeritalia was founded in 1969 in Naples, when banded together aircraft manufacturers of Fiat and Finmeccanica Aerfer and Salmoiraghi to a new group. Fiat was a long time mainly built military aircraft, including the light combat aircraft G.91, which was also used by the Air Force of the Armed Forces in large numbers. The aircraft engines and marine turbine division of Fiat was initially under the name " Fiat Avio " with the group, and now part Avio also for Finmeccanica group.

1976 Aeritalia was transferred to 100 % in the state-owned. The company was Italy's most important aircraft manufacturer. The range included the civil and military aircraft, drones, avionics, aircraft and helicopter drives and satellite technology.

Aeritalia was involved in the construction of the combat aircraft Tornado and AMX light fighter bomber and transport aircraft provided the G.222 (now Alenia C-27 ) ago. In civil aircraft it had long been a subcontractor of McDonnell Douglas and built in Italy, etc. Parts of the fuselage of the MD -80 series. For industrial policy reasons, the Italian national airline Alitalia was therefore for many years a regular player at McDonnell Douglas. In addition, they produced especially after the acquisition of McDonnell Douglas by Boeing parts of the Boeing 767 in the 1980s Aeritalia co-founded the company Aerospatiale ATR.

Both Aeritalia and Alitalia formerly belonged to the now defunct state-owned holding company IRI.

Selenia

Selenia dealt mainly with the areas of radar, sensors and avionics.

Fusion

1990 merged the parent company Finmeccanica his two daughters Aeritalia and Selenia the new Alenia. From their divisions independent companies of the Finmeccanica Group, some of which went up in European aerospace and defense groups emerged later:

• Alenia Aeronautica, Alenia Aermacchi today ( aircraft )
• Alenia Spazio, then Alcatel Alenia Space, now Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio ( Space )
• Alenia Difesa, then Alenia Marconi Systems ( with WASS, parts of Oto Melara and other ), now MBDA ( missiles), Selex Sistemi Integrati (formerly Selenia ), Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems (formerly Galileo, Fiar and Meteor ), Selex Communications and Elsag Datamat ( avionics, sensors, telecommunications, radar, etc.)

The parent company Finmeccanica handed Alenia Aeronautica in 2005, control of the aircraft manufacturer Aermacchi, which is why their products were designated Alenia Aermacchi before the merger. Aeronavali, a Finmeccanica company, which dealt with the maintenance and modification of aircraft, his company changed also in Alenia Aeronavali. Finmeccanica's helicopter manufacturer AgustaWestland and the engine manufacturer Avio were never involved with Alenia. However, AgustaWestland took over production of Alenia Aeronavali.

Alenia Aeronautica was until 2011 one of the main components of the Finmeccanica Group. In the military field, it was involved in the construction of the Euro Fighter and Joint Strike Fighters, the civilian sector it made ​​as a freelancer for both Boeing and Airbus aircraft components. In addition, Alenia built along with EADS (formerly Aerospatiale ) under the name Avions de Transport Régional (ATR ) regional aircraft and also supplied the company Dassault.