Editing Aerospace manufacturer (section)

== Geography ==
[[File:ConsolidatedWomenWorkers.jpg|thumb|A wing bulkhead being drilled at [[Consolidated Aircraft]] Corporation in Texas, October 1942]]
In September 2018, [[PwC]] ranked aerospace manufacturing attractiveness: the most attractive country was the [[United States]], with $240 billion in sales in 2017, due to the size of its industry (#1), an educated [[workforce]] (#1), low [[geopolitical]] risk (#4, #1 is [[Japan]]), strong [[transportation infrastructure]] (#5, #1 is [[Hong Kong]]), a healthy [[economy]] (#10, #1 is [[China]]), but high [[costs]] (#7, #1 is [[Denmark]]) and average [[tax policy]] (#36, #1 is [[Qatar]]).<!--<ref name=PwCsep2018>-->
Following were [[Canada]], [[Singapore]], [[Switzerland]] and the [[United Kingdom]].<ref name=PwCsep2018>{{cite web |url= https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industrial-products/publications/assets/pwc-aerospace-manufacturing-attractiveness-rankings-2018.pdf |title= Aerospace manufacturing attractiveness rankings |date= September 2018 |publisher= PwC}}</ref>

Within the US, the most attractive was [[Washington state]], due to the best Industry (#1), leading Infrastructure (#4, [[New Jersey]] is #1) and Economy (#4, [[Texas]] is #1), good labor (#9, [[Massachusetts]] is #1), average tax policy (#17, [[Alaska]] is #1) but is costly (#33, [[Montana]] is #1).<!--<ref name=PwCsep2018>-->
Washington is tied to [[Boeing Commercial Airplanes]], earning $10.3 billion, is home to 1,400 aerospace-related businesses, and has the highest aerospace jobs concentration.<!--<ref name=PwCsep2018>-->
Following are Texas, [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[Arizona]] and [[Colorado]].<ref name=PwCsep2018/>

In the US, the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] and [[NASA]] are the two biggest consumers of aerospace technology and products.{{citation needed|date=January 2009}} The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States reported that the aerospace industry employed 444,000 wage and salary jobs in 2004, many of which were in Washington and California,{{citation needed|date=January 2009}} this marked a steep decline from the peak years during the [[Reagan Administration]] when total employment exceeded 1,000,000 aerospace industry workers.<ref>Parker, Dana T. ''Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II,'' pp. 131-2, Cypress, CA, 2013.</ref>

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During that period of recovery a special program to restore U.S. competitiveness across all U.S. industries, [[Project Socrates]], contributed to employment growth as the U.S. aerospace industry captured 72 percent of world aerospace market.  By 1999 U.S. share of the world market fell to 52 percent.

In the [[European Union]], aerospace companies such as [[Airbus]], [[Safran]], [[BAE Systems]], [[Thales Group|Thales]], [[Dassault Aviation|Dassault]], [[Saab AB]], [[Terma A/S]], [[Patria Plc]] and [[Leonardo S.p.A.|Leonardo]] are participants in the global aerospace industry and research effort.

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

=== Cities ===

Important locations of the civil aerospace industry worldwide include [[Seattle]], [[Wichita, Kansas]], [[Dayton, Ohio]] and [[St. Louis]] in the United States ([[Boeing]]), [[Montreal]] and [[Toronto]] in Canada ([[Bombardier Aerospace|Bombardier]], [[Pratt & Whitney Canada]]), [[Toulouse]] and [[Bordeaux]] in France ([[Airbus]], [[Dassault Aviation|Dassault]], [[ATR (aircraft manufacturer)|ATR]]), [[Seville]] in Spain and [[Hamburg]] in Germany ([[Airbus]]), the North-West of England and [[Bristol]] in Britain ([[Airbus]] and [[AgustaWestland]]), [[Komsomolsk-on-Amur]] and [[Irkutsk]] in Russia ([[Sukhoi]], [[Beriev]]), [[Kyiv]] and [[Kharkiv]] in Ukraine ([[Antonov]]), [[Nagoya]] in Japan ([[Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Aerospace]] and [[Kawasaki Heavy Industries Aerospace]]), as well as [[São José dos Campos]] in Brazil where [[Embraer]] is based.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}