Key facts

Sales of over £5 billion are generated by Scottish-based companies in this sector

Complete avionic systems represent about 10 percent of civil aircraft material costs

Scotland’s aerospace achievements include the fuel system that led to the jet age and the new radar for the Eurofighter Typhoon

Almost 50 companies are presently active in the composite materials supply chain in Scotland, across a variety of sectors

Scottish companies and research groups are significant contributors to major word-wide space projects

Scotland is recognised as a world leader in the CubeSat platform

The wider UK space sector supports 68,000 jobs and generates around £6 billion a year to the British economy

Scottish companies contribute critical systems and sections to key defence projects such as the Typhoon Eurofighter and Type 45 Destroyer

Scotland is home to nearly 12,600 defence employees

Scotland's annual defence turnover

Scotland plays host to the largest defence electronics manufacturing site in the UK

The technical textiles market is growing at five percent per annum and is showing significant progress

Defence accounts for 25 percent of the aerospace, defence and marine sector in Scotland

MRO accounts for 11 percent of all airline industry costs

All of Scotland’s major international airports have the capacity to accommodate MRO

Over one third of all UK shipbuilding takes place in Scotland

Vector, Teledyne, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Thales, SELEX Galileo, Babcock Marine and Raytheon Systems all have a significant Scottish presence

Almost 40,000 staff are directly employed by the aerospace industry in Scotland

More than 840 companies are involved in the aerospace defence and marine sector

Scotland has world-leading expertise in space battery technology, miniaturisation of spacecraft systems and space borne instruments

NASA occasionally use a ground observatory in Dundee to track spacecraft during their missions

The UK National Aerospace Technology Strategy supports major investment in unmanned aerial vehicles

Scotland has a long association with data communications language Space-Wire, with the International Space Wire standard being developed here

companies in Scotland have been identified as having aerospace R&D capability

The aerospace and defence sector is second only to pharmaceuticals in the percent of sales it invests in R&D

university departments in Scotland with aerospace R&D capabilities