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Aerospace and defence

Behind every aircraft, every launcher and every defence system there are workshops that make the parts, build the tooling, test and maintain, with up-to-date certification and programmes that last decades. That supply chain is the sector.

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The niches

What the sector covers

  1. Aerostructures

    Manufacture and assembly of structural sub-assemblies for integrators and their tier-one suppliers: long runs, full traceability and a contract that stays with the programme throughout its life.

  2. Precision machining

    Metal and composite parts to aerospace tolerances, in an in-house workshop and approved by the customer: a scarce trade and customers who do not change supplier lightly.

  3. Tooling and test benches

    Design and manufacture of tooling, test stands and test structures for those who develop and test an engine, a launcher or a system: bespoke engineering together with the works that support it.

  4. Aircraft maintenance

    Maintenance, repair and overhaul of aircraft and components with regulatory approval: a fleet in service is a schedule of inspections that cannot be skipped.

  5. On-board electronics

    Design and manufacture of electronics and wiring for aerospace and defence platforms: short runs, demanding specifications and a qualification that takes years to obtain.

  6. Unmanned systems

    Platforms, sensors and components for unmanned systems with a proprietary product and customers who already pay: the fastest-growing part of defence, where it already generates revenue.

Why here

Programmes last decades; so do their suppliers

An aircraft, a launcher or a defence system is designed once and then built, tested and maintained for decades. Becoming an approved supplier on one of those programmes requires a level of precision and reliability that is built through years of expertise, not overnight. That rigour, together with demand that is growing again in Europe, is what makes the industry a solid foundation for investment.

Demand
Decades-long programmes
Market
Mid-sized, scattered suppliers
Lever
Certification and capacity
Drone view of PLD Space’s two test stands at Teruel Airport, with the fleet of parked aircraft in the background

The company profile

What companies in the sector look like

An aerospace or defence supplier with its own workshop or trade, certified by the industry and approved by its customers, on programmes that secure its workload for years, with repeat integrators or tier-one customers, in-house technicians and a second line of management able to run day-to-day operations. It may cover one of these niches or several: the platform is built by adding them together.

A profile, not a closed list: a portrait of the companies with which the sector is built.

Criteria

What we value

The traits that count in a company in the sector, and those that do not.

An approved supplier on programmes that are still running

One-off work, order by order, with no programme behind it

Up-to-date industry certification and full traceability

Entering aerospace now from another industry, without certification

Own workshop and trade, with capacity that can be expanded

Brokering the part and subcontracting all of it

Several integrators or programmes that spread the risk

Relying on a single contract or a single tender

A management team with its own vision and continuity

A company that depends on a single person

Spain’s aerospace industry is made in workshops that never appear in photos of the aircraft. That is where the sector lies.

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