Flight deck, Avionics Equipment & Functions

For Civil and Military airplane, electrical aircraft and helicopter cockpits

Air defence
Helicopter
Transport or refueling aircraft

As one of the world's largest suppliers in the aerospace sector, Thales is a renowned leading provider of avionics for all major global airframers. Our flight decks, equipment, flight instruments as well as software functions are onboard the most successful aircraft programs in the air transport including regional and business jets. We also equip military air transport aircraft as well as fighters and civil and military helicopters.

FORCES

Advanced Cockpit Systems

Thales delivers secure, user-friendly flight decks and avionics for all aircraft types civil, military, and helicopters supporting major global programs with cutting-edge, modular and upgradeable technology.
Global Program Presence

From Airbus A350 to Rafale and NH90, Thales avionics are onboard today’s most iconic aircraft, enabling reliable operations across commercial, military, and rotorcraft fleets worldwide.
Agile From Design to Flight

Thales supports aircraft manufacturers from day one with advanced simulation tools, ensuring avionics maturity before first flight and managing high-performance, flexible supply chains.

Thales: a global player in aerospace domain

We are uniquely positioned to bring together the latest robust technologies to design world-class secure, easy to use interactive cockpits and avionics systems for all types of civilian and military aircraft. With extensive experience in civil and business aircraft, helicopters, military aircraft and UAVs, our innovative 'supported-through-life' strategies maximise the efficiency of aircraft and their crew.

On the maintenance side, more than 2,000 highly skilled avionics employees operate through locally based operations worldwide to provide a global service, supporting flexible systems architectures, ease of maintenance and upgradability.

Our scope of civil and military products portfolio includes:

- Flight deck systems, clocks, audio radio management, lighting,
- Flight Management Systems (FMS),
- Flight controls,
- Autopilot,
- Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA), cockpit displays and computing platforms,
- Eyes-out solutions from head-up displays to helmets and head-worn displays.

FEATURES

Thales is proud to be onboard prestigious aircraft programs amongst which (non exhaustive list):

In the civil transport:

Airbus A320 family, A380, A350 XWB
ATR-600
Boeing B787
Bombardier Global Express, Global 5000, 6000, CRJ700/900/1000, Learjet 85
Dassault Falcon 5X
Gulfstream G500, G600, G650

In the military domain:

Airbus A400M
Dassault Mirage 2000, Rafale
Embraer KC390
Eurofighter Typhoon

In the helicopter sector:

Airbus Helicopter Tigre, H Force
Boeing Chinook
Leonardo A109, Wildcat
NH Industries NH90
Sikorsky Blackhawk, S76D

In the Advanced Air Mobility market:

CityAirbus
EVE (Embraer)
SkyDrive

Working with aircraft manufacturers from the start of each programme, Thales provides advanced simulation tools and resources to validate operational concepts and tailor the avionics suite to the aircraft. With this approach, we can meet our commitments in terms of delivery deadlines and guarantee that our avionics solutions achieve the required level of maturity ahead of the aircraft’s first flight.

Manufacturing development is planned as soon as the first prototypes are produced. Throughout the programme, Thales keeps pace with aircraft production rates, implementing flexible supply chain management solutions that are recognised by the industry for outstanding quality assurance and ontime delivery performance.

Thales invests significantly in R&D to design avionics suites and technologies that address the future challenges of the aerospace industry and meet the exacting requirements of air transport operators. Our advanced avionics concepts help to shape all new aircraft programmes and are available as retrofit or upgrade solutions for earlier generations of airliners.