Aerospace & defence manufacturing in France
As of 5 November 2026, 631 aerospace & defence manufacturing companies are based in France; 38 are hiring right now and Paris has the most.
As of 5 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 631
- Hiring now
- 38 · 16 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Defence systems manufacturers · 160
- Top city
- Paris · 15
- Parent market
- Manufacturing & industry · 86,039
Aerospace & defence manufacturing in France, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Defence systems manufacturers | 160 | 25% |
| Other aerospace & defence manufacturing | 106 | 17% |
| Aerospace component suppliers | 96 | 15% |
| Uav aerospace manufacturers | 69 | 11% |
| Aircraft manufacturers | 34 | 5% |
| Civilian firearms & ammunition manufacturers | 30 | 5% |
| Other electronics & electrical manufacturing | 28 | 4% |
| Precision CNC machining | 25 | 4% |
| Other consumer goods manufacturing | 19 | 3% |
| Space systems manufacturers | 14 | 2% |
| Special purpose machine builders | 12 | 2% |
| Sensor instrument manufacturers | 11 | 2% |
| Industrial safety equipment | 9 | 1% |
| Metal products manufacturers | 9 | 1% |
| Other industrial machinery manufacturing | 9 | 1% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 135 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 190 · 2 |
| 11-50 employees | 180 · 9 |
| 51-200 employees | 87 · 15 |
| 201-500 employees | 18 · 4 |
| 501-1000 employees | 6 · 2 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 12 · 4 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 1 · 1 |
| 10,001+ employees | 2 · 1 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Paris | 15 | 2% |
| Roubaix | 14 | 2% |
| Gumery | 10 | 2% |
| Toulouse | 8 | 1% |
| Mérignac | 7 | 1% |
| Lyon | 5 | 1% |
| Clermont-Ferrand | 4 | 1% |
| Aix-en-Provence | 3 | 0% |
| Arnas | 3 | 0% |
| Boulogne-Billancourt | 3 | 0% |
| Flourens | 3 | 0% |
| La Rochelle | 3 | 0% |
The biggest aerospace & defence manufacturing companies in France
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The stack of aerospace & defence manufacturing in France
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631 aerospace & defence manufacturing companies are based in France; 38 are hiring right now and Paris has the most. (Breaknorm, 5 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/manufacturing_industry/france/aerospace_and_defence_manufacturing)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Aerospace & defence manufacturing in France: questions
How many aerospace & defence manufacturing companies are there in France?
631 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Manufacturing & industry → Aerospace & defence manufacturing → leaf niches such as defence systems manufacturers, other aerospace & defence manufacturing, aerospace component suppliers. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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