Groupe Latécoère
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 330
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 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
Latécoère 640*
Latécoère 670*
Latécoère 675*
Latécoère 703*
Latécoère 710
Latécoère 730*
Latécoère 740*
Latécoère 780*
Latécoère 790*
Latécoère 800*
Latécoère 810*
Latécoère 820*
Latécoère 830*
Latécoère 850*
Latécoère 860*
Latécoère 870*
Latécoère 880*
Latécoère 900*
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)
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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 AstaireRevoir un LatécoèreJe voudrais toujours te plaireDans 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, heinToi qui n'as pas connu Lola RastaquouèreJe lui faisais le plein comme au LatécoèreQui 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."