The SME Aerospace Sdn Bhd (SMEA), is a Malaysian defence company in aerospace section that specialises in the manufacturing of aircraft and its parts. The company is located in Sungai Buloh, Selangor and it is a subsidiary company of National Aerospace and Defence Industries Sdn Bhd.

History

The company founded in 1992 through the offset program from the

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after the government of

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agreed to purchase

BAE Systems Hawk The BAE Systems Hawk is a British single-engine, jet-powered advanced trainer aircraft. It was first flown at Dunsfold, Surrey, in 1974 as the Hawker Siddeley Hawk, and subsequently produced by its successor companies, British Aerospace and ...

fighter aircraft. In 1993, SME Aerospace moving forward in aerospace industry by acquired the design rights of MD-3 Swiss Trainer aircraft from the Dätwyler of Switzerland. This trainer aircraft manufactured locally and called

SME Aero Tiga __NOTOC__ The SME Aero Tiga, originally the Dätwyler MD-3 Swiss Trainer is a trainer aircraft developed in Switzerland through the 1960s and 70s, and which first flew in 1983. History In 1993, all rights to the design were acquired by SME Aeros ...

. SME Aerospace succeed in selling their trainer aircraft to the

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and Indonesian Civil Aviation Institute. SME Aerospace also part of global supplier of composites aero structures and aircraft parts for the

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including

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Airbus A330 The Airbus A330 is a wide-body aircraft developed and produced by Airbus. Airbus conceived several derivatives of the A300, its first airliner in the mid-1970s. Then the company began development on the A330 twinjet in parallel with the A3 ...

Airbus A350 XWB The Airbus A350 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner developed and produced by Airbus. The first A350 design proposed by Airbus in 2004, in response to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, would have been a development of the A330 wi ...

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and components for

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. In 2015, BAE Systems awarded SME Aerospace a contract to supply pylons for the BAE Hawk AJT aircraft. Under the contract, the company will manufacture and supply 16 inboard and 16 outboard pylons for the BAE System's export customers.

Products

* SME Aero Tiga aircraft. *Metal-based parts and components for the conventional aircraft including

and components for

. * Pylon components for the

military aircraft A military aircraft is any fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary armed service of any type. Military aircraft can be either combat or non-combat: * Combat aircraft are designed to destroy enemy equi ...

including BAE Hawk AJT.

References

{{Reflist 1992 establishments in Malaysia Defense companies of Malaysia Aerospace companies of Malaysia Privately held companies of Malaysia Malaysian brands Aircraft engineering companies

History

Products

See also

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