Latecoere

Latecoere has been building aircraft parts in Toulouse since Pierre-Georges Latecoere founded the firm in 1917, and it now works as a tier-one partner to Airbus, Boeing, Dassault Aviation, Embraer, Bombardier, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Thales. The group employs more than 6,000 people across thirteen countries, organised into an EMEA-Asia region and an Americas region, and reported revenue of 756.7 million euros for 2025. Searchlight Capital Partners took control in 2019, a change that drew political argument in France about foreign ownership of an aerospace name, and the company remains listed on Euronext Paris. Four business areas carry the work.

Aerostructures is the older half. Latecoere describes itself as the leading independent manufacturer of aircraft doors, supplying door assemblies for the Airbus A320, the Boeing 787 and Embraer E-Jets, and it was picked by Dassault Aviation to design and build the passenger door of the Falcon 10X. Fuselage work covers sections, tail cones, nose fairings and pressure bulkheads, including the A330 T15 upper shell, the A350 nose fairing, rear fuselage sections for the Falcon 7X and 8X, and the first pressure bulkhead of the BelugaXL. Wing and empennage work came in with Avcorp in Canada, and rods came in with Technical Airborne Components in Belgium. A customer support line handles in-service issues on all of it.

Interconnection Systems is the other half and it is the second largest electrical harness manufacturer in the world, turning out around 8,500 harnesses and 25,000 kilometres of power cable a year for aeronautics, defence and space, plus avionics racks at roughly 3,600 units annually. Onboard video systems for cockpit door monitoring, external surveillance and cabin entertainment are flying on more than 1,600 aircraft with over sixty airlines, and the group develops smart cabin monitors with Airbus. Test benches complete the branch. Space Solutions supplies harnesses and sub-assemblies for satellites, launchers and cargo vehicles, with 150 spacecraft equipped and about 300 harnesses currently in orbit on platforms including Galileo, Eurostar Neo, OneSat and Spacebus. Services covers spares, repair and overhaul, upgrades and retrofits, kitting and working party support. Defence platforms in the portfolio include the A400M, the Rafale, the F-35C and the KC-46A, and newer partners range from Boom Supersonic to Radia, whose WindRunner wiring Latecoere was selected to develop in July 2026. The subsidiary map is wider than the Toulouse address suggests, taking in MADES in Malaga for defence and electronic systems, Latecoere Aerostructures Canada at Delta and Gardena, Comtek Advanced Structures, and plants in the Czech Republic, Romania, Spain, Tunisia, Mexico and Brazil. Certification is the entry ticket. The group holds ISO 9001, EN 9100, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 across its entities and releases parts under Part 21G and Part 145 approvals. Helicopter programmes including the H160, the H175 and the CH-47 also draw on its structures and wiring, and a memorandum signed with Thales in 2025 pointed the services business further towards cabin retrofit work.