Airedalandian Aerospace Systems

Airedalandian Aerospace Systems (AAS), is the largest company of Airedalandia's defence sector.

History
AAS was created out of a $22.8 merger between the de-nationalised Airedalandian Aircraft Company and Panair, one of only three (the others being Kilnor Aircraft and Semingsworth-Stevenson ) to survive the massive consolidation and nationalisation of the Airedalandian aerospace sector in the Union Party-dominated 1970s.

With the denationalisation of Airedalandian Aircraft, many expensive and advanced projects were in development, but could not be economically continued. Enter Panair, a division of the massive Panair-Miller-Taylor conglomerate with plenty of capital and a struggling aircraft division on the verge of being sold, and AAS was born.

AAS enjoyed immense success from infancy thanks to large orders of aircraft such as the F-14 Tomcat, A-9 Tornado and AV-8 Harrier, both culminations of pre-merger research.

AAS was sold by PMT in 1993, and went through a restructuring period in the early 90s. The company emerged ever stronger thanks to winning the RAAF's Millennium Fighter program with the Typhoon. Since then the Typhoon has been a cornerstone of AAS' business.

In 1998 AAS bought-out Greenwood Shipbuilding, Airedalandia's pre-eminent nuclear ship builder. Following the buyout AAS has built all new Airedalandian nuclear subs to date.

Products
Airedalandian Aerospace Systems' business is roughly 85% military-related, with the remaining 15% civilian work being mostly aircraft maintenance. The most important projects AAS currently has are the Typhoon and Lighting fighter aircraft. The later is a joint venture with another large Airedalandian defence company, Kilnor Defence.

AAS also builds nuclear submarines for the Royal Navy of Airedalandia, and does subcomponents for large surface ships. Some land vehicles are also manufactured by AAS. A small division of the company is AAS Cyber Security Systems, a respected provider of electronic security for primarily military applications.