Farnborough Aerospace Consortium

Cluster description

Role
Description of your aviation region

Strong in technology sectors: avionics, fuel and communications systems, MRO, aircraft interiors and space.

Vision/ Missons

Enabling Members to improve their business winning opportunities and capabilities and supporting and championing the cause of the aerospace and defense industry.

Year of creation

1997

Region

Southeast and East of the UK

Facts & Figures of regional aerospace
Number of companies

300

Number of research institutes

8

Numbers of public authorities

6

Other cluster members

N/A

Number of employees of all aerospace actors

105,00

Cluster Management
Organizational form

Not for profit, limited by guarantee - organization

Financing

Funded by membership fees, events revenue, and government projects

Main Actors
Main industry actors
  • Airbus 
  • QinetiQ 
  • Thales 
  • Safran 
  • BAE Systems 
  • Gulfstream 
Main research institutes
  • Surrey 
  • Southampton and Portsmouth Royal Holloway Universities 
  • Farnborough College of Technology 
  • Basingstoke College of Technology BCOT 
  • Fareham College CEMAST 

Cluster Competence and Strategy

Product worlds
  • Aerospace
  • Defence
  • Space
  • NATEP – National Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme
  • Jet Zero
  • Avionics
  • Composites
  • General Aviation
  • Supply Chains
Cluster management services for members

Developing funding sources for FAC and its members including membership services, consultancy and winning and managing Government projects/initiatives.

Best practice of International collaborations of cluster management

Various MOUs with international organizations/regions such as Fairfax State, USA, Ohio Aerospace Institute, USA and Aviation Valley Poland  

Contact Information Cluster Management

Director / President
International relations
  • Farnborough Aerospace Consortium
    Aerospace Research Innovation Centre

  • Sycamore Road
    GU14 7AA Farnborough, Hampshire
    GBR - United Kingdom

  • kim.yeomans@fac.org.uk
Get in touch with us

E-mail: info@eacp-aero.eu

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