{"title":"Aircraft and spacecraft market in France","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/fr/347-aircraft-and-spacecraft","scope":"France","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 France awarded 34 supply contracts for aircraft and spacecraft through award notices on TED; the 13 of them that state a value (38.2%) add up to €8.63 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. France imported €15.1 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to aircraft and spacecraft in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8802, 8807, 8806, 8805, 8801 and 8803; all buyers, not only public ones), up 30.1% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 49 companies have won 52 public supply contracts for aircraft and spacecraft in France, in 24 award notices from 18 public buyers.","88.5% of these awards went to companies registered in France; the most frequent foreign origin is Austria.","The five companies that win most often hold 15.4% of all awards.","42.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":52,"awardNotices":24,"winningCompanies":49,"publicBuyers":18,"awardsWithValue":19,"awardedValueEur":11923124,"localAwards":46,"foreignAwards":6,"top5Share":0.15384615384615385,"singleBidAwards":21,"awardsWithKnownBids":49,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":5,"awardNotices":5,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":487288},{"year":2025,"awards":34,"awardNotices":11,"awardsWithValue":13,"awardedValueEur":8626446},{"year":2026,"awards":13,"awardNotices":8,"awardsWithValue":4,"awardedValueEur":2809390}]},"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":11620022158},{"year":2024,"valueEur":12375534681},{"year":2025,"valueEur":15118891879}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in France — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €486 billion in 2025, 16.2% 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":485827000000,"percentOfGdp":16.2,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":28.3,"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 France\", https://cresques.com/markets/fr/347-aircraft-and-spacecraft, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}