The decisive push to drive Lombardy’s aerospace sector to a new export record comes from the Varese district, a surge visible throughout 2025 but repeated and amplified also in the first months of this year.
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Lombardy’s cross-border sales of aircraft and spacecraft nearly reached three billion euros last year, almost triple compared to 2020. In the same period, other districts in the sector, although growing significantly, achieved a limited progress of 35%. This resulted in pushing Lombardy to become the leading region in the sector for exports (it has been since 2024, having surpassed Lazio and Piedmont), representing last year 37% of the sector’s cross-border sales, up from 22% in 2020.
The surge is particularly linked to the province of Varese, where Leonardo’s fixed-wing and rotary-wing sites are located, plants around which a vast network of supply chain SMEs revolves, companies that in turn are able to secure international contracts.
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“It is a confirmation of the technological validity of what our companies do,” explains Paolo Cerabolini, president of the Lombardia Aerospace Cluster, “harvesting the fruit of years of work with long-term contracts that reward the excellence of the lead company but also the validity of the supply chain, which is progressively internationalizing.”
Foreign projection confirmed by the massive participation (the seventh) of the Lombardia Aerospace Cluster at the biennial Farnborough event with 24 companies, mostly SMEs, a new numerical record representing a territorial sector of more than 200 companies, almost 22,000 employees, and an annual turnover of 6.3 billion.
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