CASA (aircraft manufacturer)

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EADS CASA

Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA

CASA C-101
trainer/ground attack aircraft.

History

The Eurofighter Typhoon is assembled in Spain by EADS-CASA for the Spanish Air Force
The first A400M, surrounded by EADS employees, during the aircraft's roll-out in Seville on 26 June 2008

Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) was founded by José Ortiz-Echagüe in 1923 and began work on a factory in Getafe in May 1924, building Breguet aircraft under license. The first order covered 26 19 A.2s; total production of this type eventually reached 400 units.

CASA built a second factory in

Museo del Aire de Cuatro Vientos (Madrid), which flew between Seville and Bahia (in Brazil), in 1929. This aircraft was piloted by Captains Ignacio Jiménez and Francisco Iglesias and covered 6746 km in 43 hours 50 minutes. The other was the Breguet XIX Super Bidon, named Cuatro Vientos (Four Winds); it was flown by Mariano Barberán and Joaquín Collar Serra to Havana in Cuba in 1933. In 1932 CASA obtained a license from the UK aircraft company, Vickers, to build 25 Vickers Vildebeest
land-based torpedo bombers, which were powered by French Hispano 600 hp engines.

CASA 2.111 a licensed production version of the He 111-H Bomber, re-engined in Spain with imported Rolls-Royce Merlins at the end of World War II. CASA built 236 of these aircraft between 1940 and 1956

During the Spanish Civil War, the CASA Getafe factory was located in the Republican zone. It was moved to Alicante, and another opened in Sabadell. At the end of the war, production returned to Getafe. CASA manufactured the Russian Polikarpov I-15 biplane fighter, producing 287 aircraft before the end of the civil war.

After the Spanish Civil War, CASA opened a new plant in

Bücker Bü 131 as the CASA 1131. Production of these aircraft continued until the late 1950s. The CASA 201, is a twin-engine transport, (its engines were the Spanish-made ENMASA VAT Tigre G-125). In 1940 CASA began the licensed manufacture of 200 Heinkel He 111 twin-engine bombers with imported Rolls-Royce Merlins, as the CASA 2.111. (These are the aircraft that were used as World War Two German Luftwaffe He 111s in various movies such as Battle of Britain and Patton
.)

Starting in 1943, the Spanish government began investing in CASA, first obtaining a 33 per cent share of the company, by 1992 this had increased to a controlling 99.2 per cent. In 1945 CASA opened a factory in Madrid dedicated to manufacturing the parts and sub-assemblies of their various aircraft and those that they had contracts to repair and overhaul. In 1946 CASA re-established the Projects Office and resumed the design of aircraft based on the firm's proprietary technology. In 1957 CASA won a contract from the

T-33s in the Spanish Air Force. They began the manufacture of the Northrop F-5A fighter-bomber under license in 1962. In 1971, CASA merged with Hispano Aviación
.

CASA was one of the original members of the

Spanish Air Force. CASA joined the Eurofighter 2000
project in 1996.

CASA has been a part of EADS, the European aerospace corporation, with

Chairman of EADS-CASA is Domingo Ureña-Raso.[2]
EADS-CASA currently employs around 7,500 workers.

DaimlerChrysler Aerospace of Germany and Construcciones Aeronáuticas S.A. from Spain
. It is the third largest aerospace company in the world with approximately 100,000 employees.

In July 2001 EADS-CASA Military Aircraft marked the beginning of the Eurofighter Typhoon Final Assembly Phase at Getafe.[3] It is one of four assembly lines for the Eurofighter (the other three are at Warton in the United Kingdom, Manching in Germany and Turin in Italy). Production was expected to be up to seven Typhoon wings per month and 12 aircraft per year. EADS CASA is producing the right wing for the Eurofighter and assembling 87 aircraft for the Spanish Air Force. First delivery was realized together with the other partner air forces in the second half of 2002.

Military Transport Aircraft Division

EADS CASA's Military Transport Aircraft Division (MTAD) was based in Madrid. One of the aircraft it produces is the Airbus A330-200, which has been modified to provide air-to-air refuelling. It has provided one variant to the Royal Australian Air Force and another to the UK's Royal Air Force via the AirTanker company. MTAD's main focus is in the light to medium end of the military transport market covering three to nine tonnes.

The MTAD managed the industrial and technical activities of participating companies for the

A400M project. This responsibility is now managed by Airbus Military.[4]

Products

Swedish Coast Guard
Spanish Air Force
CASA C-295 of the Polish Air Force

Others

References

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Notes
  1. ^ Gunston 92
  2. ^ "New Chairman of EADS-CASA named in February 2009". Archived from the original on 2019-01-30. Retrieved 2009-10-02.
  3. ^ "Eurofighter Typhoon Final Assembly Phase at Getafe, Spain (Spanish)". Archived from the original on 2019-01-30. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
  4. ^ Airbus A400M project Archived 2004-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Atlante Tactical Long Endurance UAV".
Bibliography
  • Taylor, Michael J. H. (1993). Studio Editions (ed.). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions.
    Jane's
    Encyclopedia of Aviation
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