TEST-FUCHS (Aerospace Systems)
Fuel and lubrication pumps and fuel system components for civil and military aerospace — with UAV OEMs named among the company's own customer types.
Latest event found: 6 Oct 2026 · 11 days ago
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Strategic Vector
TEST-FUCHS is pursuing substantial aerospace and defense expansion through a new Aerospace Campus, measurement-technology cooperation, hydrogen research participation, and larger military support contracts. The company is strengthening its position as an integrated developer, manufacturer, and sustainment provider for aviation and space systems.
Efficiency Ratio
Resource deployment appears productive, with major facility investment translating into new capacity, defense sustainment revenue, technical partnerships, and planned workforce growth.
Evidence Signals
TEST-FUCHS and Deutsche Aircraft began testing the D328eco advanced fuel system, including Sustainable Aviation Fuel trials.
TEST-FUCHS officially opened a new Aerospace Campus in Groß-Siegharts after investing more than €30 million in the facility.
TEST-FUCHS announced plans to create up to 250 new jobs at the new Aerospace Campus, alongside seven new apprenticeship programs planned from September 2027.
TEST-FUCHS announced participation in establishing a new Liquid Hydrogen Lab in Enns with HyCentA, TU Graz, and additional partners.
The UK National Armaments Directorate awarded TEST-FUCHS a £7.3 million contract to support and modify RAF Mark 21 hydraulic test rigs, with an initial three-year term and options extending to five years.
TEST-FUCHS Aerospace Systems and Kistler launched a strategic cooperation combining dynamic measurement technology with certified aerospace system integration.
- About
- TEST-FUCHS Aerospace Systems has produced fuel and lubrication pumps for the aerospace industry since 1986. Where the group's Test Systems business supplies ground equipment, this line supplies flight hardware: fuel pumps, lubrication pumps and fuel system components. It serves the worldwide civil and military aerospace and space industry with on-board products and services. Its customers are helicopter, aircraft, UAV, space, engine and special vehicle manufacturers, system suppliers and maintenance organisations, with a dedicated UAV market segment alongside helicopters, aircraft, vehicles and space. The TEST-FUCHS group was founded in Groß-Siegharts, Lower Austria in February 1946 and now employs over 600 people across eight locations.
- Relevancy
- Makes the fuel and lubrication pumps that keep aircraft engines running, and names UAV manufacturers among its own customers alongside helicopter, aircraft and space OEMs. One of the few Austrian component suppliers that states a drone application in its own materials rather than leaving it to be inferred.
- Tags
- #fuelpumps #lubricationpumps #fuelsystems #flighthardware #aerospacecomponents