Fábrica Argentina de Aviones

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Fábrica Argentina de Aviones

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legal form Sociedad Anónima
founding October 10, 1927
Seat Cordoba , ArgentinaArgentinaArgentina 
management Ercole FELIPPA
Branch Aircraft construction
Website www.fadeasa.com.ar

FMA from the 1950s. You can see the production of the I.Ae 24 and some I.Ae 22 (left)
Aircraft type IA-63 Pampa of Fuerza Aérea Argentina produced by FMA

The Fábrica Argentina de Aviones (abbreviated FAdeA , Spanish Argentine aircraft factory ), until 2009 Fábrica Militar de Aviones (short FMA , Spanish for military aircraft factory ), is an Argentine manufacturer of aircraft based in Córdoba . The company was owned by the Argentine state until it was sold on April 1, 1995, after which it belonged to Lockheed Martin until 2008 and operated under the name Lockheed Martin Aircraft Argentina SA . Since March 2009 it has belonged to the Argentine state again.

history

The company was founded on October 10, 1927 and is under the Ministry of War. The aim was initially to manufacture the Avro 504 and foreign aircraft engines under license. In 1932, the company began manufacturing its first own type, the Ae.C.1, a three-seater touring aircraft. In 1933, the Ae.T.1 was the first passenger aircraft to be built in Argentina. The Curtiss Hawk Model 75 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 44 were manufactured under license and the manufacturing rights for the Siemens Sh 14 and the Wright R-1820 were also acquired . In 1944 the company became part of the Instituto Aerotecnico and renamed accordingly. Control passed to the newly established Aviation Secretariat. In the 1950s, the first South American fighter aircraft with a swept wing, the I.Ae. 33 Pulqui II . On March 28, 1952, it became part of the Industrias Aeronáuticas y Mecánicas del Estado (IAME). However, the continued Peronism caused persistent economic difficulties in Argentina. The company stopped aviation development and began producing automobiles. On July 1, 1956, the original company name was initially adopted as the new state-owned company. As early as 1957, the company became the manufacturing part of the Direccion National de Fabricaciones e Investigaciones Aeronauticas , DINFIA for short, and at times employed over 9500 people. In 1965 a five-year license agreement was signed to manufacture the Cessna 182 , which was later extended. In 1968 the company was called again Fábrica Militar de Aviones and became part of the Área de Material Cordoba (AMC). The license production of the Cessna 188 and Cessna 152 was added later. In the 1970s, the production of FMA IA 58 Pucará started. The last aircraft developed is the FMA IA 63 Pampa .

In April 1992 the company was converted into a stock corporation in which the Argentine state initially held a 30% stake. On April 1, 1995, Lockheed Martin took control of the company. In 2004 around 900 people were employed.

In 2008, the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner government announced the re-nationalization, which was officially carried out on March 17, 2009. According to press reports, the company will specialize in two new product lines in light passenger and multi-purpose aircraft after this reorientation. In August 2010, the company announced the IA-73 training aircraft as the first new development , the development of which is to be completed by 2013.

To date, the company has produced over 1,300 aircraft of 30 different types.

Aircraft types

Web links

Commons : Fábrica Argentina de Aviones  - Collection of images

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  • Jane's all the world Aircraft , various issues

Individual evidence

  1. ^ El Gobierno Nacional recupera la Fábrica Militar de Aviones. (No longer available online.) (Spanish) Inforo, March 17, 2009, archived from the original on June 22, 2016 ; accessed on June 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Fabricarán en Córdoba dos aviones "made in Argentina". (Spanish) Punto a Punto, June 16, 2009, accessed June 22, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Fábrica de Aviones lanza el primer avión cordobés desde 1982 ( Memento of 25 December 2010 at the Internet Archive ), Comercio y Justicia 31 August, 2010