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Advanced performance aircraft - Aeronautics

Leonardo’s latest generation aircraft respond to the demands of today’s complex operating scenarios, from defence and surveillance to training, tactical transport and humanitarian assistance. High-performance platforms, the result of know-how and experience gained in over a century of history, participating in the most important international cooperation programmes.

30,000

30,000

AIRCRAFT PRODUCED, DELIVERED AND SUPPORTED WORLDWIDE

20,000

20,000

PILOTS TRAINED

2,000

2,000

TRAINERS SOLD IN MORE THAN 40 COUNTRIES

1,200

1,200

AIRCRAFT MANAGED AT ABOUT 50 SITES/BASES

The creators Klaus and Surry visit the International Flight
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M-346 Integrated Training System, a unicum integrating real and simulated flight

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C-27J MPA, the Leonardo-Saudi Arabia agreement covered by the media
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FITS4TOP project, a leap into the future for advanced military flight training
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IFTS, the Italian centre of excellence training the military pilots of the future
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Leonardo’s role in European Defence investments
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The “made in Turin” aircraft for fighting forest fires
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IFTS, Tomorrow’s pilots
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Roberto Cingolani, “Forward with alliances in Europe”
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Giulia Dido, first woman in charge of production programmes at La Spezia site
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Successfully performed the first ground run test of the NGCTR’s Technology Demonstrator
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From Eurofighter a boost to growth and employment
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How high-tech made in Venegono gives future pilots wings
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The super fighter defending European skies
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In Sardinia training future Top Guns with Leonardo technology
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Leonardo makes the digital factory fly
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Leonardo consolidates the Defence pole in Piedmont
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F-35 Programme, the Czech Republic’s national TV reports on the Cameri site
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The project U-ELCOME, to transport medicines to remote areas using drones, kicks off
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The EDF FEDERATES project, developing Europe's first MSaas ecosystem
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The Eurofighter is worth 58 billion; its Italian base is in Turin
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Leonardo and ST Engineering Antycip together for a next-generation digital system
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International Partnerships

Eurofighter Typhoon

Eurofighter Typhoon

  • A multi-role fighter aircraft developed by four European nations (Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain)
  • The most important European aeronautical programme in history
  • 680 aircraft ordered by 9 nations
F-35 Lightning II

F-35 Lightning II

  • Multi-role fighter aircraft 
  • Italy is a level two partner in the industrial programme developed by the US and 7 other nations
  • Production of wing assemblies, specific avionic systems, final assembly and testing of the F-35A and F-35B variants for the Italian and Dutch fleets
  • The Cameri site in Italy has been selected as the centre for maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade (MRO&U) of the F-35s that will be operating in the Mediterranean and Europe
Eurodrone

Eurodrone

  • The Eurodrone/ MALE RPAS (Medium-Altitude Long Endurance Remotely Piloted Aircraft System) is a programme developed by 4 European nations (France, Spain, Germany, Italy) to create the first uncrewed aircraft to fly in unsegregated air space
  • Designed for Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) missions
ATR

ATR

  • The ATR consortium, a joint venture owned equally by Leonardo and Airbus – the world’s leading manufacturer of turboprop aircraft with up to 90 seats for regional transportation 
  • More than 1,800 aircraft sold to more than 200 operators in over 100 countries worldwide
Skydweller

Skydweller

  • The first solar-powered drone with perpetual flight capability, in which Leonardo is a technological partner 
  • Travels at a cruise speed of 25-50 kt at altitudes of up to 45,000 ft (14,000 m)
  • Wingspan of 72m covered in about 270m2 of photovoltaic cells

International Flight Training School

The International Flight Training School (IFTS) is the result of a strategic partnership between Leonardo and the Italian Air Force to create an advanced flight training centre – an international benchmark for training military pilots to fly front-line fighter aircraft.

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