Premium Aerotec delivers 400th fuselage section for Eurofighter

The components produced at various company sites are being integrated in Augsburg to form the fuselage centre section, which is then delivered initially to Cassidian in Manching. From there, parts are supplied to the final assembly lines in Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. “Premium Aerotec is the world's largest supplier of Airbus fuselage structures,” said Kai Horten, CEO of Premium Aerotec. “Our successes in the Eurofighter programme regularly enable us to demonstrate our capabilities in military aircraft construction as well. Besides our internationally acknowledged role as a powerful partner for civil aviation, our participation in the Eurofighter and the A400M transport aircraft is of great significance to our company in both economic and technological terms.” Roughly six metres long, the fuselage centre section of the Eurofighter is essentially an integral aluminium structure with titanium reinforcements that is planked with a single, monolithic outer shell made of carbon fibre composite material. www.premium-aerotec.com