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Airbus España
Design office in Getafe
Getafe is specialised in composites design, development and manufacture, as well as in the design and manufacturing of tooling.
Airbus Military
The Getafe plant, located 20 kilometres south of Madrid, is where aviation started in Spain in the very early 20th century. The facility covers some 840,000 m2, including more than 270,000m2 of buildings, and is the largest aviation facility in the country. It hosts four divisions of the EADS group, Airbus, Airbus Military, Cassidian and Eurocopter.
With 5,500 workers, of which approximately 1,700 are Airbus Military employees, Getafe is one of the key sites for the military transport business. In these facilities, Airbus Military converts the Airbus A330 commercial aircraft into the new generation Multi Role Tanker Transport (A330 MRTT), and develops technology for all Airbus Military programmes: A400M, A330 MRTT and the light and medium family – C295, CN235, and C212.
Cassidian
Sales and marketing, maintenance, repair, overhaul, materials development, modifications and upgrades, structures and components assembly, Eurofighter final assembly, system tests, flight testing, in-service product support for aircraft flown by the Spanish Air Force.
The plant carries out final assembly of the 87 Eurofighters for Spain. Series production of these aircraft started in the summer of 2001. The site also produces the starboard wing for all the Eurofighter aircraft ordered. The first production Eurofighter for the Spanish Air Force took to the skies at Getafe in February 2003.
The Getafe plant is also responsible for the maintenance, overhaul and combat efficiency improvement of high-performance military aircraft, including fighter aircraft (AV-8B Harrier, EF-18 Hornet, F-5 Tiger, F-1 Mirage), trainers (Tamiz and C-101 Aviojet), transporters (C-130 Hercules) and maritime patrol aircraft (P-3 Orion).
