{"title":"Aircraft and spacecraft market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/347-aircraft-and-spacecraft","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"347","label":"Aircraft and spacecraft"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 775 supply contracts for aircraft and spacecraft through award notices on TED; the 708 of them that state a value (91.4%) add up to €671 million. EU countries together imported €76.2 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to aircraft and spacecraft in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8802, 8807, 8806, 8805, 8801 and 8803; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 18.4% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 536 companies have won 1,872 public supply contracts for aircraft and spacecraft in 30 European countries, in 722 award notices from 330 public buyers.","8.3% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 35.6% of all awards across Europe.","49.1% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":1872,"awardNotices":722,"winningCompanies":536,"publicBuyers":330,"awardsWithValue":1650,"awardedValueEur":3223050063,"localAwards":1717,"foreignAwards":155,"top5Share":0.3557692307692308,"singleBidAwards":848,"awardsWithKnownBids":1727,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":16,"awardNotices":15,"awardsWithValue":15,"awardedValueEur":28183177},{"year":2024,"awards":543,"awardNotices":214,"awardsWithValue":483,"awardedValueEur":525984284},{"year":2025,"awards":775,"awardNotices":234,"awardsWithValue":708,"awardedValueEur":671243648},{"year":2026,"awards":538,"awardNotices":259,"awardsWithValue":444,"awardedValueEur":1997638955}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8802","label":"Powered aircraft \"e.g. helicopters and aeroplanes\""},{"hs4":"8807","label":"Parts of aircraft and spacecraft of heading 8801, 8802 or 8806, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"8806","label":"Unmanned aircraft"},{"hs4":"8805","label":"Aircraft launching gear (excl. motor winches for launching gliders)"},{"hs4":"8801","label":"Balloons and dirigibles"},{"hs4":"8803","label":"Parts of aircraft and spacecraft of heading 8801 or 8802, n.e.s."}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":64370029907},{"year":2024,"valueEur":64787790836},{"year":2025,"valueEur":76205084137}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion in 2025, 15.5% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Aircraft and spacecraft market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/347-aircraft-and-spacecraft, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}