Airbus Military

{{Short description|Former business unit of Airbus, which was part of the EADS conglomerate}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Airbus Military

| logo = Airbus Military logo.png

| logo_size = 240px

| fate = Reorganised

| predecessor = Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA

| successor = Airbus Defence and Space

| foundation = {{Start date and age|2009}}

| founder =

| defunct = {{End date|2014|01}}

| location_city = Madrid

| location_country = Spain[http://www.airbusmilitary.com/Company/CompanyLeader.aspx The Company] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209023118/http://airbusmilitary.com/Company/CompanyLeader.aspx |date=2014-02-09 }}. Airbus Military

| key_people = Domingo Ureña-Raso (CEO, 2009-2014)

| location =

| industry = Defense

| products = Military aircraft

| num_employees =

| parent = Airbus S.A.S., EADS

| homepage = {{url|http://www.airbusmilitary.com/}}

| footnotes = {{Cite web|url = http://www.airbus.com/presscentre/presskits/?eID=dam_frontend_push&docID=36578|title = Biography_Domingo Ureña Raso|date = January 2014|format = PDF|publisher = Airbus|access-date = 2014-01-23|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140202194239/http://www.airbus.com/presscentre/presskits/?eID=dam_frontend_push&docID=36578|archive-date = 2014-02-02|url-status = dead}}

}}

Airbus Military was a business unit of Airbus, which was part of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) from 2009 to 2013.

The company was formally created in April 2009 by the integration of the former Military Transport Aircraft Division (MTAD) and Airbus Military Sociedad Limitada (AMSL) into Airbus. In January 2014, former EADS divisions Airbus Military, Astrium, and Cassidian merged to form Airbus Defence and Space.{{Cite web |url=http://www.airbusmilitary.com/Home.aspx |title=Airbus Defence and space |access-date=2014-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209042314/http://airbusmilitary.com/Home.aspx |archive-date=2014-02-09 |url-status=dead }}

History

The predecessor company, headquartered in Blagnac, was established in January 1999 as Airbus Military Company SAS, to manage the Airbus A400M project, taking over from the Euroflag consortium. In May 2003, the company was restructured as Airbus Military Sociedad Limitada (AMSL) prior to the contract being awarded and its headquarters moved to Madrid, Spain.

The Military Transport Aircraft Division (MTAD) was a division of EADS which designed, manufactured and sold EADS-CASA light and medium transport aircraft, headquartered in Madrid, Spain.[http://www.airbusmilitary.com/Company/CompanyHistory08.aspx Being Part of aMuch Bigger World] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109165913/http://www.airbusmilitary.com/Company/CompanyHistory08.aspx |date=2014-01-09 }}

On 16 December 2008, EADS announced that MTAD and AMSL would be integrated into Airbus as part of Airbus Military.[https://archive.today/20130121181715/http://www.eads.com/1024/en/pressdb/archiv/2008/20081216_eads_organisation.html EADS: Towards a Leaner Organisation (Archive Dec 2008, 16th)]

In February 2009, Domingo Ureña-Raso was appointed chair and CEO of Airbus Military.

On July 31, 2013, parent company EADS announced its reorganization as the Airbus Group. Airbus Military, Astrium, and Cassidian were merged and reorganized to form a new division: Airbus Defence and Space,{{Cite web|url = http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130731/DEFREG01/307310019/EADS-Announces-Name-Change-Restructuring|archive-url = https://archive.today/20130731145325/http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130731/DEFREG01/307310019/EADS-Announces-Name-Change-Restructuring|url-status = dead|archive-date = July 31, 2013|title = EADS Announces Name Change, Restructuring|date = 31 July 2013|last = Chuter|first = Andrew|publisher = Defensenews}} marking the end of the Airbus Military corporate entity. Airbus Group's two other divisions are Airbus and Airbus Helicopters{{cite news |last=Messier|first=Doug |title=EADS Reorganizes, Acknowledges Success of SpaceX |url=http://www.parabolicarc.com/2014/01/05/spacex-effect-helps-spur/ |accessdate=23 January 2014 |newspaper=Parabolic Arc |date=5 January 2014 }}