Air Transport

Spain no longer makes up the numbers among Europe's aerospace elite.When national champion CASA merged into EADS in 2000, Madrid got just over a 5% share in the new entity, compared with 30% for the French and German owners.Yet Spain's young industry has a sound technological base and is growing fast.It has embraced European integration- although some regret a loss of independence- and has gone out to nurture regional supply chains around Bilbao, Barcelona, Madrid and Seville.In this special feature, we look at the programmes serving Spanish industry so well, and one region's efforts to create an aerospace hub.