Aernnova

Aernnova is a Spanish Tier 1 aerospace company that designs and builds aerostructures: wings, fuselage sections, empennages and movable surfaces in composite and metallic materials. The group is headquartered in the Parque Tecnologico de Alava, in Minano Mayor (Alava, Spain), and works for commercial aircraft, executive jets, helicopters, defense transports and emerging mobility platforms.

Its work is organized in five activities. Engineering covers conceptual and preliminary sizing, detailed design with finite element models and stress reports, development and certification testing across the testing pyramid, support for serial production and aircraft conversions and modifications, plus process engineering for assembly lines, handling systems, composite manufacturing machinery and tooling. The composites activity uses automated tape lay-up and fiber placement for skins up to 18 meters long, hand lay-up, resin transfer molding, infusion and filament winding. The metallic activity includes large-scale aluminum machining, small and medium machining of steel and titanium, peen forming, hydroforming of sheet metal, chemical milling and surface and heat treatments. Aeronautical services cover structural repair, on-site MRO and final assembly line support, spare parts and ground support equipment, and technical support for products Aernnova has designed.

Work is contracted under three models: design, design and build, and build to print. Customer programs include wing trailing edge, horizontal stabilizer and elevator parts for the Airbus A350 XWB, the center wing box and tail cone of the A220, forward fuselage and empennages for Embraer E-Jets, wing boxes and stabilizers for the Embraer Praetor, the cargo ramp and rear fuselage of the C-390, and the NH90 tail boom. Other customers include Boeing, Bombardier, Bell, Sikorsky, Pilatus and Honda Aircraft, and new-aviation developers such as Lilium, Heart Aerospace, Boom and Radia, which makes its composite and metallic structural know-how relevant to large UAV and eVTOL airframe programs.

Quality and regulatory approvals are published per site and scope. The quality management system holds EN 9100, AS9100, EN 9110 and ISO 9001 certificates. Civil aviation approvals include EASA Part 21G production, EASA Part 21J design organization, EASA Part 145, FAA Part 145 and UK CAA approvals. Environmental management follows ISO 14001, information security ISO 27001, occupational health and safety ISO 45001, and the defense scope holds PECAL 2110-2310. Individual sites also carry Nadcap accreditations for composites, heat treating, non-destructive testing, welding and other special processes.

The group operates in six countries and around twenty locations: Spain (Basque Country, Galicia, Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha, Andalusia and Aragon), Portugal (Evora), Brazil (Sao Jose dos Campos), Mexico (Queretaro), the United Kingdom (Southampton) and the United States (Los Angeles, California and Wichita, Kansas).