Diehl Aerospace
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Diehl Aerospace GmbH is a Joint venture
Joint venture
A joint venture is a business agreement in which parties agree to develop, for a finite time, a new entity and new assets by contributing equity. They exercise control over the enterprise and consequently share revenues, expenses and assets...
between Diehl BGT Defence
Diehl BGT Defence
Diehl BGT Defence GmbH & Ko KG is a German arms manufacturer and a subsidiary of the Diehl Stiftung GmbH with headquarters in Überlingen. Diehl BGT Defence produces mainly missiles and ammunition....
and Thales Group
Thales Group
The Thales Group is a French electronics company delivering information systems and services for the aerospace, defense, transportation and security markets...
operating in the field of Avionics
Avionics
Avionics are electronic systems used on aircraft, artificial satellites and spacecraft.Avionic systems include communications, navigation, the display and management of multiple systems and the hundreds of systems that are fitted to aircraft to meet individual roles...
. The headquarters of the company are in Überlingen
Überlingen
Überlingen is a city on the northern shore of Lake Constance . After the city of Friedrichshafen, it is the second largest city in the Bodenseekreis , and a central point for the outlying communities...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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The company was founded in 2006 as result of the merger of Diehl Avionik Systeme GmbH and Diehl Luftfahrt Electronik.
As of 2009, Diehl Aerospace has approx. 1250 employees and a turnover revenue of €207 Million.
A380
In 2002, Diehl Aerospace (then Diehl Avionik Systeme) was chosen by AirbusAirbus
Airbus SAS is an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of EADS, a European aerospace company. Based in Blagnac, France, surburb of Toulouse, and with significant activity across Europe, the company produces around half of the world's jet airliners....
for the following systems of A380
Airbus A380
The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, a subsidiary of EADS. It is the largest passenger airliner in the world. Due to its size, many airports had to modify and improve facilities to accommodate it...
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- Doors and Slides Management System
- Slat Flap Control Computer.
- Cabin lighting with programmable multi-spectral LEDs
Moreover, in cooperation with Thales Group
Thales Group
The Thales Group is a French electronics company delivering information systems and services for the aerospace, defense, transportation and security markets...
, Diehl Avionik Systeme ced to the development of other major A380 systems:
- The Cockpit display systemCockpit display systemThe Cockpit display systems provides the visible portion of the Human Machine Interface by which aircrew manage the modern Glass cockpit and thus interface with the aircraft avionics.-History:...
http://www.diehl-aerospace.de/index.php?id=1349&L=1, - The Flight Control Unit (FCU),
- The Integrated Modular AvionicsIntegrated Modular AvionicsIntegrated modular avionics represent real-time computer network airborne systems. This network consists of a number of computing modules capable of supporting numerous applications of differing criticality levels....
(IMA)