The Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale , was ranked at the top of the european aerospace industry in terms of turnover, manpower and the range and quality of its products.
It designs and build a comprehensive line of aerospace hardware, from the light utility plane to the Airbus widebody, from light helicopters to the heavy lift twin-engine troop carrying version, from the man-portable antitank missile to the strategic ballistic missile, from weather satellites to the Ariane launcher and the Hermes spacecraft. In 1992, merged with german Daimler Benz Aerospace AG (DASA) to create Eurocopter and in 2000, becomes part of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company ( EADS ).