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Construcciones SA (CASA) was 1923 created airplane manufacturers from Spain in the year 1972 the second large aircraft factory Hispano S.A. took over and since 1999 as EADS CASA and thus as Spanish part of the multinational European aviation company EADS firmiert.

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History

CASA (1923-1999)

The Construcciones SA (CASA) became of Ortiz de at the 3. March 1923 in Sevilla based. The new company began immediately with maintenance of the mostly imported airplanes of various manufacturers. To develop established in May 1928 in in the south of the country a new factory with the most modern electrotechnical plants of completely Spain and at the same time begins the company their first own type of aircraft. Three years later first of CASA appears independently developed airplane, the 1930 presented CASA I. in the same year visited king Alfons XIII. the factory in During the Spanish civil war and repaired CASA waited the airplanes of the Spanish nationalists under general Francisco Franco, in the employment. Still during the civil war the licenced production of the dreimotorigen Junkers Ju 52/3m from Germany begins as CASA 352, whose production still many years should keep running. In the following years some new land plane and water airplane projects appeared those partially as prototypes were built however in the long run into series production did not go. During the Second World War, in which Spain is however involved, 1940 began the production of the bombers Heinkel He 111 as CASA 2111 after license of Heinkel. 1943 buy the Spanish government altogether to 33% of CASA and begin with it with the slow transformation from CASA to a state company. 1945 are opened in the capital Madrid a new on model construction and production of mechanical components specialized work. In April 1945 CASA will transfer a Junkers Ju 90 landed in Barcelona to Lufthansa for testing and overhaul, a angedachter reproduction of the large Ju 90 could not for different reasons (collapse of the German Reich and other logistic inadequacies) not be realized, but this machine was used at the national airline Iberia still some years. In the consequence 1946 the development department was again created, in order to develop again own types of aircraft with own technology, e.g. become there some problems of the past as the Spanish civil war the enterprise a manufacturer of airplanes after foreign license left, which possessed over no more own technology basis for own projects and therefore in the international comparison strongly at soil had lost. In the coming years after the war and the political isolation on the part of allied powers and the USA CASA beside the license production of German machines of Heinkel and Junkers for own air forces del Aire particularly was further mainly with the maintenance and maintenance of airplanes of the most diverse manufacturers employs in Spain in use still was, began however at the same time as planned also again with the development of new own types of aircraft. In 50's the years appeared then also various new airliners like C 201 Alcotan, C 202 Halcon as well as C 207 Azor, three machines which however all together compared with US-American types like the Douglas DC-4 or DC-6 with their conception on the height of the time were no longer whole already and therefore outside from Spain no buyers found. In the year 1957 CASA in the course of the approximation to the USA, due to the cold war, received a contract for the maintenance and maintenance in the context of NATO in Europe (and also in Spain) stationed F-100 super of Sabre combat aircraft of US-American air forces, which now on a long-term basis secured the economic situation and with it the existence of the company. CASA kept an order the trainer aircraft Lockheed T-33A Shooting star built in the USA later from the Spanish government to modernize. By new orders financially strengthened Construcciones S.A. 1972 transferred the second larger airplane manufacturer of Spain Hispano S.A. and became with other manufacturers from France, Germany and Great Britain member in that year of the created Airbus consortium. Despite the assumption of Hispano the Firmierung of the enterprise was not changed and maintained its designation further. As the Spanish Air Force a new trainer aircraft needed 1975 around the aging Hispano HA-200 Saeta to replace Lockheed T-33A Shooting star and North American T-6 Texan as the first really modern CASA airplane with support of MBB from Germany and Northrop from the USA the C.101 Aviojet was developed and built. This small jet can be used also as light ground combat aircraft, found as Spanish airplane for the first time also some buyers abroad and flies this very day at the Spanish aerobatics relay Patrulla . In the 80's the development of the C.212 Aviocar began, from which a whole family of light transport aircrafts for military or civilian employments developed and was very successful on the international market. The Spanish state increased its financial participation in CASA since 1943 in the course of the time and possessed 1992 altogether 99.2% of the shares and/or the firm portions. In the year 1999 CASA became member of the again-created multinational European aviation company EADS.

EADS CASA (1999-heute)

Since 1999 CASA is a part of the European aviation company EADS (European Aeronautic D efence and space company) together with Matra from France, Dornier GmbH and Daimler Benz Aerospace AG from Germany. Since the now Spanish section of EADS called 1999 EADS CASA, is the largest Spanish enterprises in air and space travel sector. The enterprise is concentrated on three large ranges: Aircraft construction, maintenance and space technology and have approximately 7500 specialized coworkers. About 80% of production are exported abroad and surely the reinvestment of 15% of the operational profit. The current chairman of the board of EADS CASA is Francisco Sainz.