Aerostar SA
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| Aerostar S.A. | |
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| Type | Aeronautics |
| Founded | 1953 |
| Headquarters | Bacău, Romania |
| Website | http://www.aerostar.ro/ |
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Aerostar S.A. is an aeronautical company based in Bacău, Romania.
[edit] History
Since 1953, the year of its establishment, the name changed in turn from U.R.A. into I.R.Av, I.Av. and finally Aerostar, subordinated in turn to the Ministry of Armed Forces, Air Defence Headquarters, General Industrial Direction of the Army, then to the Ministry of Machine Building Industry as part of the Central Department for Fine Mechanics and Aeronautical Industry, of Bucharest Aeronautical Group or of the National Centre of the Romanian Aeronautical industry. As an autonomous entity operating in the aeronautical and defence industry, Aerostar has followed its own development course, always in the service of its main customer, the Romanian Ministry of National Defense.
The evolution of the products and services supplied by the company is based on the creative and technical potential held and which has been put into value in major programmes.
Aerostar supplied the repair and maintenance for all the types of aircraft in the inventory of the Romanian army. Aerostar is the matrix where the IAR-93 prototype aircraft was made, the first fighter plane built in Romania after World War II.
Not only that Aerostar preserved its initial capabilities, but it also developed them and acquired new capabilities.
Such a new capability is successfully shown in the upgrade of the MiG-21 Lancer aircraft belonging to the Romanian Air Force. Along this line of development are the upgrade programmes in the Lancer family: MiG-21, MiG-21 bis, but also the upgrade demonstrator programme MiG-29 SNIPER, as well as the modernisation of the trainer airplane YAK-52W and YAK-52TW. The modernisation programme LAROM is an application in the field of ground defence systems originating from the development and modification of the 40 APRA 122 FMC multiple launch rocket system.
These programmes have consolidated Aerostar's status as a repair and modernization house for military aircraft and defence systems, naturally derived from its initial profile. As integrator of complex systems Aerostar has brought new capabilities, unequaled in the Romanian aerospace industry.
The identity of the company was enriched thus by enriching the core business with activities which incorporate an advanced level of technology and intelligence.
The preoccupations in the field of civil aviation, which are based on a strategic decision, got materialised in the identification of the civil markets for YAK-52, the supply of variants specially configured for these users, the development of ultralight airplanes such as WT-01, the development of the own-design ultralight airplane Festival.
The programmes under way in Aerostar and the results achieved have been a pole around which gathered international cooperations with outstanding partners: Elbit Systems, Thomson-CSF Communications, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace. In a complex process of change aiming at a better adaptation to the market requirements and at the impending need of privatization Aerostar is a company of reference for the Romanian industry, for the community where it operates, building its way towards the elite of the world aeronautical and defence industry.
