Groupe Latécoère
The Groupe Latécoère is an aircraft company based in Toulouse, France.[1] Founded by Pierre-Georges Latécoère in 1917, the company was known in the past particularly for its seaplanes. Today, the group is a major supplier of sections of aircraft fuselage and doors and is the second-largest European supplier of onboard electrical wire harnesses and avionics bays with its Latelec subsidiary company.
The group is currently a member of the CAC Small 90, and participates in all segments of aeronautics: commercial aircraft with Airbus and Boeing, regional planes with Embraer and Bombardier, business aircraft with Dassault Aviation, and military aircraft with Dassault and Airbus.
In 2000, Groupe Latécoère bought the Czech aircraft company Letov Kbely.
In 2006, the group employed 3,412 people and its annual sales were worth €432 million.
Aircraft products
- Latécoère 1
- Latécoère 2
- Latécoère 3
- Latécoère 4
- Latécoère 5
- Latécoère 6
- Latécoère 7
- Latécoère 8
- Latécoère 9*
- Latécoère 10*
- Latécoère 11*
- Latécoère 12*
- Latécoère 13*
- Latécoère 14
- Latécoère 15
- Latécoère 16
- Latécoère 17
- Latécoère 18
- Latécoère 19
- Latécoère 20*
- Latécoère 21
- Latécoère 22
- Latécoère 23
- Latécoère 24
- Latécoère 25
- Latécoère 26
- Latécoère 27*
- Latécoère 28
- Latécoère 29 (gros)*
- Latecoere 225*
- Latécoère 290
- Latécoère 291
- Latécoère 292
- Latécoère 293
- Latécoère 294
- Latécoère 295
- Latécoère 296
- Latécoère 297
- Latécoère 298
- Latécoère 299
- Latécoère 30*
- Latécoère 300
- Latécoère 301
- Latécoère 302
- Latécoère 310*
- Latécoère 32
- Latécoère 340
- Latécoère 350
- Latécoère 360*
- Latécoère 370*
- Latécoère 380
- Latécoère 381
- Latécoère 382*
- Latécoère 383*
- Latécoère 384*
- Latécoère 385*
- Latécoère 386*
- Latécoère 410*
- Latécoère 420*
- Latécoère 430*
- Latécoère 440
- Latécoère 441*
- Latécoère 442*
- Latécoère 443*
- Latécoère 460*
- Latécoère 470*
- Latécoère 480*
- Latécoère 490
- Latécoère 491
- Latécoère 492*
- Latécoère 493*
- Latécoère 500
- Latécoère 501
- Latécoère 502*
- Latécoère 503*
- Latécoère 510*
- Latécoère 520*
- Latécoère 521 Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris
- Latécoère 522
- Latécoère 523
- Latécoère 524*
- Latécoère 525*
- Latécoère 530*
- Latécoère 531*
- Latécoère 550
- Latécoère 560*
- Latécoère 570
- Latécoère 580*
- Latécoère 581*
- Latécoère 582
- Latécoère 583*
- Latécoère 590*
- Latécoère 600*
- Latécoère 601*
- Latécoère 602*
- Latécoère 610*
- Latécoère 611
- Latécoère 613*
- Latécoère 614*
- Latécoère 615*
- Latécoère 616*
- Latécoère 617*
- Latécoère 620*
- Latécoère 631 Lionel de Marmier
aircraft marked * were projects only
Missile products for the French Navy
- Malaface
- Malafon
Current products
- Airbus A330 A340 (mid-fuselage upper shell)
- Airbus A340/500-600 (mid-fuselage upper shell and lower nose section)
- Airbus A380 (passenger doors, bulk cargo doors and lower nose section)
- Airbus A320 (passenger doors)
- Boeing 787 (passenger doors)
- Bombardier CRJ 700/900 (bulk cargo door)
- Embraer ERJ 170/175/190/195 (passenger doors, emergency exit door and forward and aft fuselage barrel section)
- Dassault Falcon 50 EX (Rear fuselage section)
- Dassault Falcon 7X (baggage door and rear fuselage section)
- Dassault Falcon 900 B/EX (Rear fuselage section)
Current leadership
- Chairman of the Supervisory Board: François Junca
- President and CEO: Bertrand Parmentier
- CFO: Jean-Jacques Pignères
Recently
Official Opening of Latecoere’s aerospace factory in Mexico
Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, (March 27, 2014) – The State Governor of Sonora, Guillermo Padres Elias, Frédéric Michelland, President of Latecoere, and Eric Gillard, Chief Executive Officer of Latecoere, jointly offered a ceremony for the inauguration of their new manufacturing facility in Hermosillo, Sonora.
The 80,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, which already employs over 250 people, currently produces on-board wiring systems for Airbus and fully assembles the Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger doors.
In popular culture
The name Latécoère is part of a "mystique" in France around the beginning of aviation and adventurers. It is part of a famous song by Henri Salvador, "Jardin d'Hiver", in its 3rd verse :
- "Je voudrais du Fred Astaire
- Revoir un Latécoère
- Je voudrais toujours te plaire
- Dans mon jardin d'hiver"
A possibly even more popular (and arguably very gross) reference is found in Lola Rastaquouère, a song by Serge Gainsbourg, a famous and controversial French artist:
- "Comment oses-tu me parler d'amour toi, hein
- Toi qui n'as pas connu Lola Rastaquouère
- Je lui faisais le plein comme au Latécoère
- Qui décolle en vibrant vers les cieux africains"
Latécoère is mentioned by name in the first sentence of Antoine de Saint Exupéry's famous autobiographical work, Wind, Sand, and Stars, (1936) - from the English translation:
"In 1926 I was enrolled as student airline pilot by the Latécoère Company, the predecessors of Aéropostale (now Air France) in the operation of the line between Toulouse, in southwestern France, and Dakar, in French West Africa."
References
- ↑ "Terms and Conditions." Groupe Latécoère. Retrieved on 13 June 2012. "135, rue Périole BP 25211 31079 TOULOUSE CEDEX 5" - Access
External links
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- Company official website
- Company official site (French)
- Profile on Google Finance.