founded pretoria south africa 1990 09 27 headquarters pretoria south africa key people paul potgieter 1 managing director revenue net income number of employees 800 website http www.aerosud.co.za mirage f1 in aerosud colours aerosud is an aeronautical engineering and manufacturing company formed in 1990 by the then key designers of the south african denel rooivalk attack helicopter together with similar leaders from the atlas cheetah fighter program mirage iii upgrade and the product support environment . history edit the first major contract involved the re engining of the dassault mirage f1 with the klimov rd 33 engine used in the mig 29 fighter . 2 although overtaken by the decision of the south african air force to buy the saab jas 39 gripen the super fighter was technically very successful and still flies as an aerosud company demonstrator . towards 1995 aerosud embarked on diversification into the commercial aviation market with the design of galleys and other interior systems . aerosud since became an internationally recognised supplier for interior systems . around 2000 aerosud embarked upon major expansion of its production capacity . from its premises near pretoria south africa it manufactures around 2 000 parts and assemblies a day and supplies these to the assembly lines of airbus boeing 3 bae systems 4 and agusta westland helicopters . in 2006 deeply involved in both civil and military aviation engineering projects the company s activities cover design development prototyping manufacture and in service support . aerosud is the designer and manufacturer of the interiors for the airbus a400m . 5 the company s latest design is the ahrlac light attack and reconnaissance aircraft which as of december 2012 is being developed in a joint venture with the paramount group . 6 references edit government support required to grow aerospace industry . retrieved 2009 08 13 . campbell keith 2007 06 22 . new laboratory a public private initiative . creamer media s engineering news . retrieved 2008 08 21 . boeing and aerosud sign firm contract to build airplane parts . boeing . 2001 11 28 . retrieved 2008 08 17 . sa firm wins eurofighter contract . southafrica.info . 2006 08 11 . retrieved 2008 08 17 . airbus partners south africa on research & technology programmes . airbus . 2006 09 21 . retrieved 2008 08 17 . dead link paramount group to spread ahrlac s wings across africa and beyond . defenceweb . 2012 09 11 . retrieved 2012 12 12 . external links edit official homepage cipro listing retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title aerosud & oldid 647219700 categories companies established in 1990aircraft manufacturers of south africahidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 february 2015 at 08 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view