5,600 aerospace employees
- 4,000 MRO
- 900 manufacturing
- 600 services
- 100 space activities
160 aerospace companies
Ireland-based aviation leasing companies manage ~3,400 aircraft worth almost $94 billion
Strengths
- Restoration of aircraft engines, components
- Manufacturing, services for MRO
- Precision engineering
- Telecommunications
- Software development
- Advanced materials
- Electronics
$4.6 billion economic impact
- $2.1 billion directly from aviation
- $1.5 billion through the supply chain
- $1.0 billion from associated aviation spending
Sources: www.dttas.ie; www.awex.be
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