1938 headquarters bordes france products turboshaft and jet engines revenue 870 million 2006 number of employees 5 178 2006 parent safran s.a. website www.turbomeca.com turbomeca or safran helicopter engines is a french manufacturer of low and medium power gas turbine turboshaft engines for helicopters . the company also produces gas turbine engines for aircraft and missiles as well as turbines for land industrial and marine applications . snecma group acquired the company in september 2001 . contents 1 history 2 engine models 2.1 turboprops turboshafts 2.2 turbojets 2.3 turbofans 2.4 joint projects 2.5 engines of microturbo subsidiary 3 references 3.1 notes 3.2 bibliography 4 external links history edit turbomeca was founded on august 29 1938 by joseph szydlowski and andr planiol following the granting of their patent application for a supercharger in 1937 . hispano suiza ordered a demonstrator to equip its 12 y engine used among others on the ms 405 c1 . turbomeca changed rapidly from an artisanal production to an industrial one benefiting from the politics of re armament . this is shown by the production figures of the following three years 18 compressor in 1938 300 in 1939 and 1200 in 1940 . although the factory at m zi res sur seine was only really operational in june 1940 the government advised the move to the south of france due to the german advance . that month turbomeca relocated to a newly requisitioned workshop in saint p de bigorre near the hispano suiza engine factory in tarbes . the buildings were found to be too small and in 1941 a site was bought in bordes near pau . turbomeca progressively moved into this site between the autumn of 1941 and june 1942 . in november 1942 szydlowski fled to switzerland . between october 1942 and 1944 the production stalled and the workforce dropped from about 300 to about 50 . from 1950 turbomeca produced the tiny centrifugal flow palas turbojet producing 1.6 kn 353 lbf . the palas was also produced by blackburn and general aircraft in the uk and continental in the usa . from 1957 it manufactured the bastan turboprop for the a rospatiale n 262 airliner . blackburn had a licence for producing other turbomeca designs . rolls royce turbomeca limited was established in 1968 to develop the adour jet engine for the anglo french sepecat jaguar . the company went on to develop the rtm322 turboshaft which powers westland wah 64 and some models of the agustawestland eh101 and nhi nh90 . in 2001 turbomeca and rolls royce won a 1 billion usd contract to equip 399 german french and dutch nh90 helicopters with their rtm322 engines . as of 2012 turbomeca turbines power civil parapublic and defence helicopters for all the leading helicopter manufacturers mainly eurocopter but also agustawestland sikorsky kamov hal nhi . engine models edit turboprops turboshafts edit most turbomeca engines bear the names of pyreneean mountains . turbomeca ardiden turbomeca arrano turbomeca arriel turbomeca arrius turbomeca artouste turbomeca astazou turbomeca bastan turbomeca makila turbomeca tm 333 turbomeca turmo turbojets edit turbomeca marbor turbomeca palas turbomeca palouste turbofans edit turbomeca astafan turbomeca aubisque joint projects edit hal turbomeca shakti ardiden joint project with hal mtr mtr390 joint project with mtu and rolls royce rolls royce turbomeca rtm322 joint project with rolls royce rolls royce turbomeca adour joint project with rolls royce engines of microturbo subsidiary edit microturbo sg 18 microturbo trs 18 microturbo tri 40 microturbo tri 60 microturbo tri 80 microturbo cougar microturbo eclair microturbo lynx references edit notes edit bibliography edit gunston bill . world encyclopedia of aero engines . cambridge england . patrick stephens limited 1989 . isbn 1 85260 163 9 http www.robbrobb.com newspressdetail.aspx id 16 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to turbomeca aircraft engines . official web site v t e turbomeca aero engines gas generators auxiliary power units or don palouste turbojets arbizon gabizo marbor palas pim n turbofans aspin astafan aubisque turboprops turboshafts arrano arriel arrius artouste astazou bastan makila marcadau tm 333 turmo joint development hal turbomeca ardiden shakti turboshaft mtu turbomeca rolls royce mtr390 turboshaft rolls royce turbomeca limited adour turbofan rtm322 turboshaft snecma turbomeca larzac turbofan v t e safran subsidiaries messier bugatti dowty morpho sagem sma engines snecma gnome et rh ne hispano suiza labinal turbomeca people jean paul herteman ross mcinnes francis mer retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title turbomeca & oldid 740400317 categories aircraft engine manufacturers of francesafran groupcompanies of franceturbomeca aircraft enginesgas turbine manufacturerscompanies established in 1938hidden categories commons category with local link different than on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in 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