Alenia Aeronautica, a company fully owned by Finmeccanica, is the greatest italian industrial player in the field of aeronautics,  it delivers products and systems of superior quality and performance, including proprietary designs like the C-27J Tactical Airlift , and plays key roles in world-class programs like Eurofighter Typhoon (of which is one of the industrial partners), and the European UCAV.

Alenia  also has a major role in commercial aircraft, designing and building advanced aerostructures
for state of the art airliners, contributing to develop the Sukhoi Superjet new generation family of regional jets and building the market-leading ATR turboprops.
Business activities also consist of overhaul, maintenance and modification of military and civil aircraft through Aeronavali, a wholly owned company. Alenia is a partner of and cooperates with the major aerospace groups, such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Airbus, EADS, Dassault and BAE Systems.
Alenia Aeronautica Turkey is the Liason Office of Alenia Aeronautica in Italy. It commenced operating from its facilities in Ankara since 2004.
In the year 2001, Undersecretariat For Defense Industries (SSM) released the tender for the acquisition of 10 (ten) Maritime Patrol Aircraft Platforms with Maritime Surveillance capability and integration of mission equipments  onboard  the platforms. Selected bidders were EADS CASA from Spain and CANADIAN COMMERCIAL CORPORATION FIELD AVIATION COMPANY Inc. from Canada. On 19 January 2005 the Defence Industry Executive Committee (DIEC) has decided to start MELTEM-3 contract negotiations with Alenia Aeronautica and relevant contract was signed on 20 July 2005. Total Contract Price is 218,6 million US Dollar and offset plus local content is in excess of 750 million US Dollar gross value. The main turkish industrial firms taking part in the Project and their respective work are as follows:
• TAI (Structural work-packages)
• HAVELSAN (Software)
• ASELSAN (Glass Cockpit, FMS)
• KALEKALIP (Machined parts)
• AYDIN YAZILIM (Harness)
Alenia Aeronautica has the leadership for promoting the Eurofighter Aircraft in Turkey. Indeed, SSM released the RFI for the Turkish FCA (Future Combat Aircraft) and Alenia is proposing to consider Turkey as “the 5th partner” in the Eurofighter organization. The Eurofighter consortium, UK, Germany, Spain and Italy, wants to include Turkey in the program and officially communicated its proposal for a manufacturing cooperation to Turkey including technological transfer.