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For the US manufacturer named Aero, see Aero Commander. For the Polish manufacturer named Aero, see Aero Ltd.
AERO Vodochody AEROSPACE a.s.
IndustryAerospace and defence
FoundedFebruary 25, 1919 (1919-02-25)
Headquarters
Odolena Voda
,
Czech Republic
Key people
Ladislav Šimek (Chairman)
ProductsMilitary aircraft
Total assets5,384,688,000 Czech koruna (2017) Edit this on Wikidata
OwnerPenta Investments
Number of employees
1,683 (31.12.2013)[1]
Websitewww.aero.cz
Aero Vodochody L.159A ALCA - Advanced Light Combat Aircraft
Aero L-39 Albatros of the Breitling Jet Team

Aero Vodochody (commonly referred to as Aero; Vodochody is a location) is a Czech (and Czechoslovak) aircraft company, active from 1919, notable for producing the L-29 Delfin, L-39 Albatros, L-59 Super Albatros and the L-159 Alca.

After the fall of the Communist government in Czechoslovakia (1989) and in the rest of Central Europe, the company lost a major portion of its main market in jet trainers. Sales of military aircraft declined in the early 1990s in Eastern Europe as well as in NATO countries where the entry of a new producer was obviously unwanted. Aero was controlled for several years, 1998 to 2004, by Boeing.[2]

At the end of October 2006 Aero Vodochody was privatized once again. A Czech-Slovak investment group Penta Investments bought it for roughly 3 billion CZK.[3][4]

Currently, Aero Vodochody produces the Sikorsky S-76, center wing box for the Alenia C27, door subassemblies for the Embraer 170 and Embraer 190, cockpit for the UH-60, gun bay doors for the F/A-18 Super Hornet, subassemblies and parts for the Airbus A320 family, fixed leading edge kits for the Boeing 767[5] and the L-159.[6]

Aero is also likely to upgrade the runway at its Vodochody Airport near Prague to international airport standards which would serve mainly the low-cost air-carriers and charter flights heading to Prague.[7]

Aircraft

Pre-World War II

Post World War II

In Development

References

  1. ^ Aero Vodochody AEROSPACE a.s., Annual report 2013, page 54
  2. ^ http://www.aero.cz/en/about-us/about-aero/history/
  3. ^ http://www.aero.cz/en/about-us/about-aero/company-profile/
  4. ^ http://www.aero.cz/en/about-us/about-aero/history/
  5. ^ http://www.aero.cz/en/other-aerostructures.html
  6. ^ http://www.aero.cz/en/aerostructures.html
  7. ^ http://www.aero.cz/en/group-of-companies.html
  8. ^ http://www.l-39ng.cz/program-l-39-ng/about-program/
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