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Alenia Aeronautica (formerly Aeritalia) is an aerospace engineering corporation in Italy, a subisidary of Finmeccanica. Aeritalia was originally owned by FIAT. more...
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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 comprise 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 and created Aeritalia. In 1990 Aeritalia was merged with Selenia of Finmeccanica group and they created Alenia.
Products
AMX International AMX;
ATR 42 and ATR 72;
Aeritalia G.91;
Alenia G.222;
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
AMX International with EMBRAER;
Advanced Amphibious Aircraft with Dornier Flugzeugwerke (later with Hellenic Aerospace Industry, Per Udsen, and SOKO);
Global Aeronautica, LLC (50%, with Vought) — for the Boeing 787;
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