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German Aerospace Industries Association - BDLI

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2026
30 September Nico Neumann, CEO, Deutsche Aircraft; Dirk Panter, State Minister for Economic Affairs, Labour, Energy and Climate Protection of the Free State of Saxony; Marie-Christine von Hahn, Principal Managing Director, German Aerospace Industries Association (BDLI); and Christian Hirte, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Transport, at the opening of Deutsche Aircraft’s Final Assembly Line (FAL) at Leipzig/Halle Airport.

Deutsche Aircraft opens D328eco line in Leipzig

The €100 million-plus facility at Leipzig/Halle Airport has moved the D328eco programme from development to serial production, with capacity for up to 48 aircraft a year.

2025
5 June Deutsche Aircraft’s first D328eco test aircraft, TAC 1, lines up outside its Oberpfaffenhofen facility.

Deutsche Aircraft unveils D328eco test aircraft

Over 500 guests attended the Oberpfaffenhofen rollout as Deutsche Aircraft prepared to begin flight testing for 2027 certification.

2022
13 October Markus Dirscherl, KEBA Industrial Automation; Dr. Michael Haidinger, Boeing; Dr. Anna Christmann; Norbert Steinkemper, Broetje-Automation; Michael Ernst, 3D.aero; and Tobias Weber, Boeing, in Renton where the 737MAX is assembled.

Germany approves shimless assembly automation project

High-precision measurement will be combined with innovative process technology and end-to-end digitisation such that manual compensation of component tolerances (so-called "shimming") can be consigned to history.