Aerospace and defence meetings Bristol

BCI Aerospace business aims to assist large firms and SMEs involved in the global aviation and space industries, having civil and defence applications, to explore specific markets and seize business and partnership opportunities.

Our Aerospace Meetings range of events offers business to business platforms, high level conferences and industrial tours to better comprehend aerospace business in targeted countries and areas having specific requirements and opportunities.

Aerospace and Defence Market in the United Kingdom

UK aerospace is a truly world-class sector. The UK possesses the largest aerospace sector in Europe and the second largest in the world, after the USA. There are around 3,000 companies in the UK aerospace supply chain and the industry directly employs just over 100,000 people.

In 2008, the aerospace sector generated a turnover of £21 billion (representing a 17% share of the global market) and took new orders worth £35 billion.
The level of innovation and R&D is high and the aerospace and defence sector is the second highest UK R&D spending industrial sector.
The global nature of the aerospace sector is underlined by the fact that UK aerospace exports on average accounted for 69% of companies’ turnover in 2008.
The UK is involved in the design, manufacture and marketing of the full range of aircraft products - from composite aero-structures, aero-engines, aircraft systems and avionics, helicopters through to maintenance, repair & overhaul services".

The South West Area

The South West of England is one of the most diverse and capable aerospace and defence regions in the world. The breadth of capability includes aircraft structures, aero-engines, rotorcraft, unmanned air systems, avionics, landing gear, systems and components. No surprise then that it's home to major aerospace and defence companies, including Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Augusta Westland, GKN Aerospace, GE Aviation Systems, BAE Systems, Messier-Dowty, Cobham, Meggitt, Thales, Ultra Electronics, Honeywell, MBDA, Moog, Babcock Marine, Boeing and Qinetiq and the Ministry of Defence Procurement HQ amongst others.