Please find below the list of business opportunities related to this sector (click on the link of interest to view the presentation). For further information, please contact us.

•   MRO Centers for general aviation, executive aviation, school and aerial works aircraft  (242KB)

This group covers basically all non-military nor regular (including charter and regional aviation) transport aircraft. Among all these aircraft types, the area that has more development possibilities in Spain is executive aviation maintenance.

•   MRO Centers for large aircraft  (236KB)

MRO activities are aimed to maintenance of airworthiness and also to the repair, modification and unscheduled maintenance including the more standard line maintenance, according to international safety regulations and specifications of each manufacturer.

•   Military transport and special mission aircraft  (239KB)

Spanish leading position in the military transport and special mission aircraft sector makes Spain an ideal location to establish any business related to this market.

•   Helicopters. A new industry in Spain  (237KB)

In a context of general growth of the sector worldwide, the helicopter industry in Spain has seen its future perspectives very much improved with the establishment of the third Eurocopter’s Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Albacete.

•   Manufacture for low cost flight simulators  (238KB)

The new low cost simulators are equipments with a lower purchase price, use of modern technologies, lower maintenances cost and grounding time. Spain has an important number of aviation schools that can use these devices.

•   Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)  (243KB)

The UAVs are one of the areas within the aerospace industry with a highest growth potential, so far its main use was defense-related activities, its begin to be increasingly used for civilian applications, for which there is significant potential in Spain

•   Training Centers for Aircraft Maintenance Engineers  (237KB)

Establishing in Spain training centers for aircraft maintenance engineers in accordance with national education system and the aeronautical licenses. Increasing outsourcing in the maintenance industry by the airlines.

•   Avionics  (251KB)

Avionics includes the aircraft communications and navigation equipment, the flight management systems and the information and control panels. There is a huge potential market to be still developed in Spain.

•   Aviation services at new Spanish airports  (235KB)

Activities for supporting regional and low-cost aviation: airplanes and components maintenance, coating and interiors renewal, handling and operation support at new or developing airports in Spain.

•   ATM Systems (Air Traffic Management)  (236KB)

Spain offers good investment opportunities in the ATM industry thanks to Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast allowing the coordination of satellite air traffic by 2020.

•   Airline pilot training market  (235KB)

The aeronautical training market is a growing business, since there is an increasing number of low-cost operators which do not have their own training centers, but contract them to other centers.

•   Aeronautical activities at Spanish airports end of life aircraft dismantling  (241KB)

Aircrafts designed and developed in the last 15 years need to be recycled according to the European environmental regulation. Spain has free places in its airports to establish new technology dismantling factories for end of life aircraft.

•   Aero-engines and power engineering  (242KB)

Spain has a highly specialized industry in aero-engines and propulsion engineering technology, with a great experience in advanced manufacturing processes, able to successfully drive any enterprise undertaken in this segment.

•   Aerostructures and composite materials  (240KB)

The aerospace industry in Spain was one of the pioneers in the use of composite materials and is currently in the forefront of these technologies.

•   Aeronautical activities at Spanish airports aircraft coating  (238KB)

Establishing centers with hangars especially designed for aircraft coating and development of ecological products and techniques. In Spain there are airports with available land to set up coating center specialized.

Last updated: 24|01|2012