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Aerostar S.A., is an aeronautical manufacturing company based in Bacău, Romania. ==History== Since its establishment in 1953, the company's name has changed in turn from U.R.A. to I.R.Av, I.Av. and finally Aerostar. It has been a subsidiary of the Ministry of Armed Forces, Air Defence Headquarters, General Industrial Direction of the Army, the Ministry of Machine Building Industry as part of the Central Department for Fine Mechanics and Aeronautical Industry, of Bucharest Aeronautical Group or of the National Centre of the Romanian Aeronautical industry.〔(Jubileul ) 〕 Aerostar has provided repair and maintenance services for all the aircraft types used by the Romanian military. The company also developed the IAR-93 twin-engine, tactical ground attack and reconnaissance aircraft, the first fighter aircraft built in Romania after World War II. Upgrade programs for the MiG-21 (MiG-21 LanceR) and MiG-29 were developed by Aerostar in co-operation with Elbit Systems.〔(History )〕 The company has produced more than 1800 Yak-52 aircraft, in three versions - IAK-52, IAK-52W and IAK-52TW.〔(Textron Marine & Land Systems and Aerostar Announce Teaming Agreement )〕 Aerostar upgraded the Romanian Air Force's MiG-21 LanceR aircraft. This program included the development of upgrade programs for the MiG-21, and MiG-21 bis and also the MiG-29 SNIPER upgrade demonstrator program.〔(MiG-21 - Romanian Lancer Upgrade Aerostar/Elbit )〕〔(Romania's Aerostar Teams With Elbit On MiG-29 "Sniper" Avionics Upgrade )〕 A modernization program was also carried out on the YAK-52W and YAK-52TW trainers. The LAROM modernization program upgraded the 40 APRA 122 FMC multiple rocket launchers belonging to the army.〔(LAROM Multiple launch rocket system )〕 Aerostar developed its own light civil aircraft for aerobatics and sport aviation, including the Festival light-sport aircraft.〔(About Festival )〕 The company has engaged in international projects with Elbit Systems, Thales Group (Thomson-CSF), EADS (DaimlerChrysler Aerospace) or Textron Marine & Land Systems.〔(Elbit lands Romanian C-130 upgrade )〕〔(Aerostar has talks with Elbit and Thomson-CSF )〕〔(General Information )〕〔(ROMANIA - AEROSTAR ADVANCES )〕〔(Aerostar looks ahead with three-point strategy )〕 In the mid-2000s the company produced Southern Condor powered parachute airframes for Southern Powered Parachutes, for sale in the US.〔Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 81. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aerostar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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