Airbus has been a strong partner of Italy’s aerospace sector for nearly 50 years. Italy has always proved to be a source of excellent collaboration for all Airbus divisions.

Some 80 Airbus aircraft operate with Italian airlines, and over 240 helicopters, and nearly 90 military aircraft provide battle-winning, surveillance, life-saving capability to the Italian armed services. Italy is an important market, supplier base and source of some of the world’s most innovative technology partners.

Airbus in Italy has more than 160 direct employees, and over 8,000 people working on dedicated supply chain jobs with Italian suppliers across manufacturing, engineering and IT sectors.

Italy’s significant sourcing volumes make it a key country for all three divisions of Airbus: Commercial Aircraft, Helicopters and Defence & Space. Airbus has more than 130 active suppliers across the country, making Italy Airbus’ 1st largest supplier country in EU, excluding Airbus home-countries, and the 4th worldwide, with a yearly spend of approx. € 500 million and Leonardo being the number one supplier with approx. € 200 million.

Airbus strongly contributes to Italy’s export capabilities thanks to several fruitful partnerships, which include the turboprop manufacturer ATR, MBDA missile systems, the NH90 military helicopter, the Eurofighter combat plane and the IAMCO NATO’s maintenance contractor. We estimate the export value for those partnerships being more than € 30 billion as of today.