Avions de Transport Régional
| GIE Avions de Transport Régional
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| legal form | GIE |
| founding | 5th February 1982 |
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Blagnac , France
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| management | Stefano Bortoli |
| Number of employees | 1400 (beginning of 2017) |
| sales | 1.6 billion USD (2019) |
| Branch | Aircraft construction |
| Website | www.atraircraft.com |
Avions de Transport Régional ( ATR ) is an Italian - French aircraft manufacturer with headquarters in Blagnac near Toulouse .
history
The company was founded on February 5, 1982 as a joint venture between the French company Aérospatiale (now Airbus Group ) and the Italian Aeritalia (now Leonardo ) under French law as Groupement d'intérêt économique (GIE). Both companies each hold a 50% stake in ATR.
The development program for the first joint product, the ATR 42 , began on October 29, 1981, the prototype of which then had its maiden flight on August 16, 1984. From September 1985 the machine was ready for series production and certified. The final assembly and flight tests of the civil passenger aircraft variant took place in Toulouse . The military as well as civil freight variants took place in Naples . The further development ATR 72 was presented at the Paris Air Show in 1985 and delivered from 1986.
Around the year 2000 the company got into a crisis because of the fierce competition from regional jets, but it was overcome.
By the end of September 2008, ATR had a total of 959 orders (419 of them for the ATR 42 and 540 for the ATR 72); at this point in time 795 machines had been delivered (403 ATR 42 and 392 ATR 72). ATR- Turboprops customers are and have been 165 companies worldwide, including Air Dolomiti , Czech Airlines , Air New Zealand , Binter Canarias , Alitalia and TAROM .
At the World Air Transport Forum in Cannes in October 2007, it was announced that the first studies of a new turboprop family had been carried out since 2006 together with the engine manufacturers Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce . According to the current status, the family should comprise two types with between about 80 and 90 seats. According to ATR, however, an official program start is not expected until 2015 at the earliest in order to have the opportunity to benefit from new technologies that were first used in the larger models 787 , A350 and A380 from the manufacturers Boeing and Airbus . It is expected that these technologies will be sufficiently tested and established by 2015 to be adopted and used in the planned new turboprop family.
In 2010, 80 new machines were ordered from ATR, in 2011 almost twice as many with 157. The number of deliveries rose from 51 to 54 in 2011, and at the end of the year there were a further 224 copies on the order books, the equivalent of around 5 billion US dollars . In spring 2012 the 1000th ATR, an ATR 72-600, was delivered.
The opening of a simulator center at Singapore Seletar Airport on December 14, 2012, the first outside Toulouse, takes account of the growing customer base in the Asia-Pacific region.
Series
ATR 42
The ATR 42 is a turboprop for up to 50 passengers and is also available as a cargo variant and a military version. The individual sub-variants 42-300, 42-320, 42-500 and 42-600 differ mainly in performance, range and payload.
ATR 72
The ATR 72 is a stretched version of the ATR 42 for up to 74 passengers, which is also available as a freighter and in a military version. Here, too, the sub-variants 72-200, 72-210, 72-500 and 72-600 offer different performance data with the same external dimensions.
Web links
- Official website of ATR (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Organizational Structure: Our governance. Accessed June 7, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Corporate Overview: Company Profile. Accessed June 7, 2020 (English).
- ↑ ATR Results 2019. May 11, 2020, accessed June 7, 2020 .
- ^ Organizational Structure: Our Partners. Accessed June 7, 2020 (English).
- ↑ ATR Key Figures ( Memento from October 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b airliners.de - ATR order numbers doubled January 21, 2011
- ↑ Flight Global: ATR studies new larger turboprop family (October 23, 2007) ( Memento from June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ A b Dominic Perry: ATR achieves record sales in 2011. In: flightglobal.com. January 18, 2012, accessed January 18, 2012 .