Sonaca España designs and manufactures metallic and composite aerostructures for aircraft manufacturers. The former Aciturri Aerostructures business supplies major structures for conventional aerospace programmes and named electric-aircraft platforms including Eve’s EVE-100 and Vertical Aerospace’s VX4/Valo family.
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The Spanish aerostructures business was founded as Aciturri in 1977 and joined Sonaca through a controlling transaction completed in 2025. Now presented as Sonaca España, it contributes engineering, manufacturing, assembly and supply-chain capabilities across wing, fuselage and empennage structures. The profile retains Aciturri as an alias because historical contracts and technical documents use that name.
Its autonomy relevance is concentrated in electric aircraft rather than ground robotics. Official programme material identifies wing skins, spars and leading- and trailing-edge structures for Eve’s EVE-100, while Vertical Aerospace selected the business for airframe development and manufacture for its eVTOL programme. These are structural supply relationships: Sonaca España does not develop autonomy software or complete vehicles, but provides flight-critical hardware needed to industrialise autonomous and piloted advanced-air-mobility platforms.
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