Airframer

See the shape of the industry, not just the entries

The directory tells you who supplies what. Analytics turns those relationships sideways: where the white space is, which programs are industrially comparable, who is winning across a class of aircraft.

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21,815supplier links
1,451active programs
1,657categories
1,438programs with ranked peers

The lenses

Every lens is built from the live directory — nothing here is a separate database that can drift out of date. Start from a program, a company or a category; each view links into the others.

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In development

Programs still in development, mapped against any category: which have no supplier on record yet — the doors still open, with coverage shown honestly.

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Peer benchmark

Every program carries its 20 most similar peers, scored on specification, shared industrial base and scale — compare a supply chain against its class.

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Program comparison

Side-by-side criteria for programs you choose: seats, weights, range, status, fleet. Figures shown only where independently corroborated.

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Relationship dossier

The full picture of one supplier on one aircraft program: every category linking them, the company’s footprint on other programs, its rivals on this aircraft, and who does the same work on the program’s closest peers.

Analytics  There’s no standalone page — open a dossier from any supplier line in a program’s supply-chain table, or any program line on a company page.
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Category concentration

How concentrated is a category across programs — where a single supplier carries a whole class.

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Geography

Where the supply chain lives — supplier density by country, clickable to top companies, categories and airframers, with a U.S. state view.

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The market, valued

The market valued year by year — commercial, general aviation and military — computed live from the production records, with the largest programs and the biggest movers.

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Listed exposure

Which stock-market listed groups stand behind a program’s supply chain — suppliers resolved to their listed parents, primary listings badged, freshly verified against the markets.

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The industry ledger

Every dated fact on the record — acquisitions, contracts, certifications, first flights, appointments — filterable by theme, event type, country, sector, program and date. Bookmark a filtered view as a standing query.

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Methodology: lens views are computed live from the Airframer directory. Program criteria (seats, weights, performance, status) are a reference layer compiled with AI assistance and shown only where independently corroborated across two runs; the supply chain relationships themselves are researched and curated by the Airframer editorial team. Figures marked with a dash are withheld pending corroboration. 2,265 programs carry the criteria layer.