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In Portugal, the company CEiiA and Desaer, will launch ATL-100 and project a new aircraft factory and generation of 1.200 jobs
The Portuguese company CEiiA, together with the Brazilian DESAER – a Brazilian company specialized in aircraft development, today launched the ATL-100 Program in Évora, located in Portugal. The program aims to create a new aircraft factory and create 1.200 direct jobs in Alentejo.
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The ATL-100 comes from a joint venture between CEiiA and DESAER. According to the Portuguese engineering center, the objective of the project is “The development and industrialization of a new generation light aircraft for a short-haul market, multi-configurable for greater flexibility in the logistics of passengers and goods, designed for lower operating costs and greater sustainability, foreseeing the evolution to a carbon neutral platform”.
Miguel Braga, from the CEiiA board, said that “With this program, we want to definitively reinforce what is the national aeronautical hub in Évora, with the development of a complete and innovative program that allows us to create a new integrator from Portugal , for the industrialization and operation of new generation aircraft”.
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The ATL-100 will have a cargo capacity of up to 2,5 tons and a capacity of 19 passengers.
DESAER shareholder Roberto Figueiredo says that “This partnership, which brings together complementary skills from the aerospace sector in Portugal and Brazil, in addition to being an important project for technological innovation and job creation in both countries, assumes even more relevance in a context of crisis in the sector caused by the Covid-19 pandemic”.
This is the first complete aviation program involving the development, industrialization and operation of a new generation of aircraft in Portugal. The official launch of the plan will be attended by the Minister of Social Cohesion and the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
The aviation project has a five-year development plan. The forecast is that more than 30 national and international companies and universities related to programs such as MIT will participate. It is estimated that the ATL-100 program generates 1.200 direct jobs in the Alentejo region of Portugal.
