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GKN Aerospace supports the world's major prime aircraft and aero engine manufacturers.

Airbus A380
Airbus A380
Engineering services
(Joint partner with Airbus UK on main wing box design)

Metallics
- Fuselage and Stringers
Composites
- Flap Track Beams
- Landing Flap Upper Skin
- Shroud Box
- Overwing and Underwing Panels
- Main Landing Gear Doors and Fairings
- Trailing Edge Panels
- Tip and Outer Falsework
- Vertical Tailplane
- Fairings and Brackets

Lockheed Martin F-22
Lockheed Martin F-22

Engineering services

Composites
- Sine Wave Wing Spars
- Fuselage Frames
- Stabiliser Kick Ribs
- Engine Air Inlet Lips
- Aileron Inboard Spar

Equipment
- Cockpit Canopy

Metallics
- Titanium Sine Wave Wing Spars
- Titanium Keelsons
- Titanium A-Frames
- Gun Trough
- Aft Boom
- Engine Transition Duct
- Fan and Augmenter Duct
- External Flaps

 


Airbus A400M
A400M
Design, development and supply of complex carbon wing spars. Metal and Composite wing trailing edge sub-assemblies.
Lockheed Martin F-35
Lockheed Martin F-35 (JSF)
Partnership agreement with BAE SYSTEMS on design and production of high technology fuselage components together with manufacture of composite and metallic engine components and canopy.
Boeing 787
Boeing 787
Electro-thermal ice protection technology, floor system, Trent 1000 rear case, GEnx fan composite containment case and ICF

Boeing F-15C
Boeing F-15C
Canopy Systems.
Boeing F/A-18 E/F
F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet
Major supplier of composite and metallic wing and fuselage structures and canopy.
Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk
Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk
Significant elements of the cabin structure, rotor blades and other composite components, and emergency flotation equipment.

Airbus A319/A320/A321
Airbus A319 / A320 / A321
Composite wing and tail components and cockpit windshields.
Airbus A340 500/600
Airbus A340 500/600
Design services, manufacturing contracts for a number of wing components together with contracts for Trent 500 engine components.
Blended Winglet
Boeing 737 and 767
Blended winglets

Bombardier CRJ 700/900
Bombardier CRJ700/900
Design, test, certification and manufacture of the tailcone.
Lockheed Martin C-130J/C-273
Lockheed Martin C-130J / C-27J
Design, test, certification and manufacture of the nacelle systems.
 

Boeing C-17
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

Composites
- Wing Flaps
- Fixed Leading Edges
- Doors
- Cockpit Floors
- Pylon Skins
- Landing Gear Pod Skins

Equipment
- Metallic Nacelle components
- Cockpit windshields

Supply Chain Management services

Metallics
- Landing Gear Frames
- Fuselage Bulkheads,
Longerons and Stringers
- Cargo Ramp, Door and Floor Components
- Engine Pylons
- Wing Slats, Slat Tracks and Flap Trailing Edges
- Nose Barrel Skins