Groupe Latécoère

Groupe Latécoère is a French aircraft company based in Toulouse, founded in 1917 by the aeronautics pioneer Pierre-Georges Latécoère. In its first decades it became known for seaplanes, above all the six-engined Latécoère 631 passenger flying boat designed for transatlantic routes. Today it works as a major supplier of aerostructures, producing fuselage sections and doors, and through its Latelec subsidiary it is the second-largest European supplier of onboard electrical wire harnesses and avionics bays. It supplies commercial airliners with Airbus and Boeing, regional aircraft with Embraer and Bombardier, business aircraft with Dassault Aviation and military aircraft with Dassault and Airbus. It is carried here as a legacy aerospace manufacturer.