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Innovating for Aerospace

Positioning the UK in a leading role on future civil platforms 

 

Delivering truly sustainable aviation is a huge technology and innovation challenge. NCC is working in partnership with global leaders in the aerospace industry to meet this challenge, developing the future materials, products and processes that will transform aircraft for generations to come.

The UK’s leading centre of excellence for composite technology, NCC is home to world-leading capabilities and has deep expertise and experience in working across the sector. This includes working in partnership with the UK’s Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) to deliver long-term capability and innovation for the UK’s aerospace sector.

NCC is anchoring future UK aerospace composite component manufacturing through high-rate, sustainable processes and technologies. Deploying capabilities from material characterisation to manufacturing flying parts, we deliver industrialised, certifiable solutions for future flight.

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Aerospace Focus Areas

Civil aerospace focus areas across the technology and product life cycle 

Major Programmes
Technology Themes

We connect technology strategy to real-world delivery through our end-to-end engineering services

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Services portfolio

Aerostructures: Wing of Tomorrow

As a long-term innovation partner to Airbus and their supply chain, we’re advancing next-generation composite wing technologies. Our work sets the foundation for what’s next. Deploying capabilities from material characterisation to flying parts manufacturing, we deliver industrialised and certifiable solutions for future flight.

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Our Impact

Propulsion: Braided blades

With support from NATEP (National Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme), we're helping UK SME Carbon ThreeSixty to develop scalable rotor blade manufacturing for electric vertical take-off & landing (eVTOL).

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Systems: Vertical Aerospace VX4

Prioritising safety & reliability for commercial certification, our design-for-manufacture expertise improved the structural capability of lighter propeller blades & crashworthiness of cockpit for pilot safety in emergencies.

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Insights and Impact

Friday 04 Jul 2025

NCC experts Peter Giddings, Phil Druiff & Michael Elkington will be participating in the event taking place in Amsterdam from 6-7 October 2025, sharing how we're innovating for industry.

Thursday 03 Jul 2025

Driving change towards more sustainable pathways for processing end-of-life wind turbine blades is a key enabler to UK’s net zero ambitions. NCC’s Tom Andrews and Jessica Harrison share how SusWIND is delivering impact to achieve this. 

Tuesday 15 Apr 2025

Tim Newman, Principal Research Engineer for Data Science at NCC is presenting 'Graph Neural Networks for semantic feature identification' at NAFEMS World Congress 2025, 19th - 22nd May 2025.

Monday 07 Apr 2025

NCC explores a proof-of-concept offering a multi-repair solution that could significantly extend product lifespan and reduce environmental impacts.

Wednesday 19 Mar 2025

NCC shares the successful completion of the ASCEND programme, positioning the UK industry at the forefront of advanced, sustainable technologies for next-generation aircraft and future mobility solutions.

Tuesday 11 Mar 2025

By channelling investment into the most promising approaches, the UK can advance an aerospace supply chain that promotes circularity and achieves net zero ambitions.