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An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft.^{[citation needed]}

In the European Union, aerospace companies such as EADS, BAE Systems, Thales, Dassault, Saab and Finmeccanica account for a large share of the global aerospace industry and research effort,^{[citation needed]} with the European Space Agency as one of the largest consumers of aerospace technology and products.^{[citation needed]}

In Russia, large aerospace companies like Oboronprom and the United Aircraft Building Corporation (encompassing Mikoyan, Sukhoi, Ilyushin, Tupolev, Yakovlev, and Irkut which includes Beriev) are among the major global players in this industry.^{[citation needed]}

In the United States, the Department of Defense and NASA are the two biggest consumers of aerospace technology and products.^{[citation needed]} The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States reported that the aerospace industry employed 444,000 wage and salary jobs in 2004.^{[citation needed]} Many of those jobs were in Washington and California.^{[citation needed]} Leading companies like Boeing, United Technologies Corporation and Lockheed Martin Corp. are among the most widely known aerospace manufacturers in the world.^{[citation needed]}

Important locations of the civil aerospace industry worldwide include Seattle and St. Louis in the USA (Boeing), Montreal in Canada (Bombardier), Toulouse in France and Hamburg in Germany (both Airbus/EADS), the North-West of England and Bristol in the UK (BAE Systems, Airbus and AgustaWestland), as well as São José dos Campos in Brazil where Embraer is based.

[edit] Top-performing aerospace companies

B-24s under construction at Ford's Willow Run factory in the United States during World War II

As of June 2005, the top-performing US aerospace companies, as ranked by Aviation Week & Space Technology, were:^{[citation needed]}

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