ATR (aircraft manufacturer)

Avions de Transport Régional, short ATR, is an Italian- French aircraft manufacturer based in Toulouse.

History

ATR was founded in 1981 as a joint venture between the French company Aérospatiale ( now Airbus Group) (now Alenia ) established and the Italian Aeritalia.

The first product was the ATR 42, the prototype on August 16, 1984 had its first flight. As of December 1985, the machine was ready to go and certified. The further development of the ATR 72 was unveiled at the Paris Air Show in 1985 and delivered in 1986.

Around the year 2000, the company came because of the fierce competition from regional jets in a crisis, although one could be overcome.

By the end of September 2008, ATR 959 total orders recorded (of which 419 for the ATR 42 and 540 for the ATR 72); at that time you had 795 machines delivered (403 ATR 42s and 392 ATR 72s ). Clients of ATR turboprops are and have been 165 companies worldwide, including Air Dolomiti, Czech Airlines, Air New Zealand, Binter Canarias, Alitalia and Tarom.

As part of the World Air Transport Forum in Cannes was given in October 2007 that since 2006 is carried out together with the first engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney and Rolls- Royce studies on a new turboprop family. The family will comprise two types in the range between about 80 and 90 seats on the current state. An official launch, however, to be expected, according to ATR 2015 at the earliest, so as to have the opportunity to benefit from new technologies that were used in the larger patterns 787, A350 and A380, the Boeing and Airbus for the first time. It is expected that these technologies are sufficiently tested and established in 2015, to accept them and use them in the planned new turboprop family.

In 2010, 80 new machines were ordered from ATR, 2011, 157, almost twice as many. The number of deliveries in 2011 rose from 51 to 54, in the order books were at the end of the year another 224 copies for the equivalent of about 5 billion U.S. dollars. In the Spring season 2012, the 1000th ATR, an ATR 72-600, was delivered.

The opening of a simulator center at Singapore Seletar Airport on 14 December 2012, the first outside of Toulouse, contributes to the growing customer base in the Asia- Pacific account

Series

ATR 42

The ATR 42 is a turboprop for up to 50 passengers and freight as well as military variant version. The individual variants 42-300, 42-320, 42-500 and 42-600 differ mainly in performance, range and payload.

ATR 72

The ATR 72 is a stretched variant of the ATR 42 for up to 74 passengers, which is available as well as a freighter and military execution. Here also, the sub-variants 72-200, 72-210, 72-500 and 72-600 different performance with external dimensions.