Alenia Aermacchi, a Finmeccanica subsidiary, is a European aerospace company from Italy. Alenia Aermacchi owns ATR, a joint venture with EADS. The company head office is in Venegono Superiore, Varese. It also maintains offices on the property of Turin Caselle Airport in San Maurizio Canavese, Province of Turin and Pomigliano d'Arco, Province of Naples.
Alenia Aermacchi was created on January 1st, 2012 as the merger of Alenia Aeronautica and its s...
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Alenia Aermacchi, a Finmeccanica subsidiary, is a European aerospace company from Italy. Alenia Aermacchi owns ATR, a joint venture with EADS. The company head office is in Venegono Superiore, Varese. It also maintains offices on the property of Turin Caselle Airport in San Maurizio Canavese, Province of Turin and Pomigliano d'Arco, Province of Naples.
Alenia Aermacchi was created on January 1st, 2012 as the merger of Alenia Aeronautica and its subsidiaries Alenia Aermacchi e Alenia SIA. The former Alenia Aeronautica was created in 1990 by concentrating the Finmeccanica aerospace and defense industries Aeritalia and Selenia.
Alenia's predecessor companies include Aeritalia, Fiat and Romeo. Airplane manufacture in the Turin area began in 1910 with SIT and continued with Pomilio and Ansaldo, which built the SVA reconnaissance biplane. The industry was consolidated by Fiat after the First World War. Under chief designers Celestino Rosatelli and Giuseppe Gabrielli, Fiat built some of the...
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