Programmes

Factual sheets on the main programmes Aérospatiale and its predecessors took part in.

Aircraft

First flight 1955 · in service from 1959

The first French short/medium-haul twinjet, with engines mounted at the rear of the fuselage.

First flight 1969 · service 1976–2003

Franco-British supersonic transport aircraft.

Launch 1969 · first flight 1972 · service 1974

The first twin-engine widebody, starting point of the Airbus family.

ATR 42: first flight 1984 · ATR 72: first flight 1988

Family of regional turboprop aircraft.

First flight 1963

Twin-turboprop military transport aircraft.

Launched in 1968 · SN 600 first flight 16 July 1970

Light business and regional twinjet, built in small numbers.

From the 1950s to the 1990s

A line of helicopters designed in Marignane, from the turbine-powered Alouettes to the Super Puma.

First launch 1979 · Ariane 4 from 1988

The European launchers that gave Europe independent access to space.

From the 1970s to the 1990s

Scientific, telecommunications and observation satellites, integrated notably in Cannes.

From the 1960s to the 1990s

Anti-ship, anti-tank and surface-to-air missiles, including the Exocet family and the Milan, HOT and Roland missiles.