Wing components aerostructure manufacturing offering

The Wing components is an aerostructure manufacturing offering from Aernnova with aerospace-grade material and dual-use market availability. Wing components from Aernnova are metallic aerostructure parts and subassemblies for aircraft, produced from aluminium, titanium and steel. Aernnova supplies them as a Tier 2 manufacturer of multi-technology metallic components to airframers, and the range covers structural wing elements such as spars, skins and wing ribs.

The offering suits fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and eVTOL programmes that need machined and formed primary or secondary structure. Aernnova lists Airbus, Embraer, Boeing, Pilatus, Bell, Leonardo, Honda Aircraft, Lilium, Bombardier and Sikorsky among its clients and programme partners, so the same production base serves business jets, airliners, rotorcraft and electric vertical-lift designs.

Manufacturing capability is the main selection criterion for this kind of part. Large-scale machining handles aluminium parts up to 20 metres long, with in-house CNC capacity at all facilities, while small and medium machining of hard materials such as steel and titanium runs on 109 machining centres in total. Peen forming, hydroforming presses and roller forming shape skins, leading edges and complex sheet-metal parts, and chemical milling removes weight from formed panels.

Surface and heat treatments are integrated at every facility. They extend the service life of parts that carry high stress and follow environmental regulations, so a buyer can source machined, formed, treated and assembled hardware from one supplier instead of coordinating several shops.

For integration, Aernnova works under a concurrent-engineering model that gives it responsibility from design to serial production and product support. It develops processes and programme-specific tooling for each customer, manages raw-material procurement under Lean-based manufacturing engineering, and assembles subassemblies that combine ribs, stringers, brackets, joints, profiles and beams with rivets, nuts and bolts. Laminated aluminium and titanium panels are also part of the range.

Typical applications are wing panels, spars and ribs, fuselage frames and skins, and sheet-metal brackets for commercial, business, military and urban air mobility aircraft. OEMs and tier-one integrators who need a metallic structure partner with design support, tooling and series production under a single contract are the intended buyers.