National aeronautics stakeholders
GKN Aerospace Engine Systems
GKN Aerospace Engine Systems develops and manufactures components for aircraft, gas turbines and rocket engines with high technology content in cooperation with the world’s leading producers. We offer an extensive range of services, including sales of spare parts for aircraft engines and aircraft, lease engine support, as well as overhaul and repair of aircraft engines and industrial gas turbines.
The mother company GKN Aerospace is a global first-tier supplier of airframe structures, engine components, transparencies and fuel/flotation systems, with sales of USD 3,5 billion in 2013 and a global workforce approaching 12,000. It has a significant participation on all major aircraft programmes today and a broad customer base spanning commercial, military, business aerospace and space markets. The division’s extensive engineering capability and clear focus on targeted innovation has created technological and manufacturing leads in each of its areas of expertise.
461 81 Trollhättan, Sweden
Saab
Saab serves the global market with world-leading products, services and solutions from military defence to civil security. With operations on every continent, Saab continuously develops, adapts and improves new technology to meet customers’ changing needs. Saab has divided operations into six business areas: Aeronautics, Dynamics, Electronic Defence Systems, Security and Defence Solutions, Support and Services and the independent subsidiary Combitech.
For more than seventy years, Saab has been challenging the laws of nature and pushing the boundaries of technology – making ideas fly. Today, all this knowledge and experience in aviation is centered within Saab’s business area Aeronautics. Saab Aeronautics offers advanced airborne systems, related subsystems, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), aerostructures and services to defense customers and commercial aerospace industries worldwide. Aeronautics is also responsible for development, production, marketing, selling and supporting of the Gripen fighter.
58188 Linköping, Sweden
