Publish Date: September 2026
Updated Tariff & Recession Risk Analysis and Forecasts
The Aircraft Parts Manufacturing Market Report covers the $44.7 billion industry which produces specialized components and subsystems beyond propulsion including control surfaces, avionics, landing gear, interiors, and auxiliary systems. Competitive structure encompasses global aerospace suppliers alongside specialized manufacturers addressing particular component categories or technology segments. Market demands emphasize extraordinary reliability for safety-critical applications, weight optimization enhancing aircraft performance, specialized functionality addressing particular aerospace requirements, and increasingly digital integration supporting modern aircraft architectures. Manufacturers face challenges balancing sophisticated engineering requirements, stringent quality standards, specialized manufacturing capabilities, and complex international trade considerations affecting global aerospace supply chains. Industry leaders differentiate through advanced engineering optimizing component performance, manufacturing precision ensuring quality and consistency, comprehensive certification documenting compliance, and increasingly system integration capabilities beyond individual components in a sector where safety reputation and reliability metrics drive supplier selection decisions.
Aircraft Parts Manufacturing Industry Definition
Aircraft Parts Manufacturing produces components and systems for aircraft including structural elements, control surfaces, landing gear, interiors, and specialized aviation systems. Companies design and build components meeting exceptional reliability and performance requirements under strict regulatory oversight and quality standards. Manufacturing processes include precision machining, composite fabrication, assembly of complex systems, environmental testing, and certification to aerospace standards. These businesses create critical components enabling safe, efficient aviation operations. The industry continuously improves material performance, weight reduction, manufacturing precision, and increasingly focuses on integration of advanced composites, electronic systems, and additive manufacturing technologies while enhancing quality control processes for critical flight components.
NAICS Code: 336413
Total # of Companies: 719
Total # of Factories / Facilities: 872
Industry Employees: 118,992
Market Size: $44.7 billion
TARIFF IMPACT (Summer 2025 – Download Report for Updated Analysis)
This report has in-depth analysis on the recent US tariff changes on material costs, quantifying import dependencies, tariff exposure rates, and key source countries for the aircraft parts manufacturing sector.
Estimated Tariff Cost: $1.6 billion
Relative Tariff Impact: VERY HIGH
Aircraft Parts Manufacturing Report Format
The 2026 U.S. Aircraft Parts Manufacturing Market Report is 63 pages of deep insights into the trends, dynamics, and forecasts shaping the industry. Professionals leverage this market report to develop a deep understanding of the market for business strategy, planning, forecasting, benchmarking, industry analysis, valuations, identifying organizational inefficiencies, financial analysis, and more.
This report covers more than 100 statistical data sets with historical trend data from 2017 to 2025, and 2026 and 2030 forecasts. The report includes revenue & cost trends, in-depth OPEX analysis on 26 categories, financial ratio benchmarks, forecasts, plant inventory analysis, detailed breakdown of 31 balance sheet items, numerous industry segmentations, competitive intensity analysis, material costs benchmarks, profitability analysis, state benchmarks, plant utilization, employee role analysis, inflation statistics, employee pay analysis, revenue per employee trends, and more.
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Report Table of Contents
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For this report, the core data is sourced from comprehensive business, operational, and economic surveys conducted by government and private institutions and filled out by a statistically significant number of companies in the aircraft parts manufacturing sector. Our analysts develop the forecasts utilizing econometric models based on historical statistical analysis, industry trends and dynamics, macroeconomic analysis & forecasts.
1-2 – Market Report Overview & Contents
3 – Market Overview
– Data Sources, Industry Definition & Market Commentary
4 – Market Synopsis – Revenue & Growth
5 – Market Synopsis – Costs & Profitability
SECTION ONE
REVENUE & GROWTH ANALYSIS
7 – Market Size Details
– Industry Revenues, Companies & Facilities
– Trend Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
8 – Growth Benchmarks
– Sales per Company & Plant
– Trend Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
9 – Product Lines Revenue
– Percentage of Revenue from Product Lines
10 – BCG Matrix – Net Income vs. Revenue Growth
– Subsectors vs. Industry
11 – Total Sales by Month & Year
– 2021-2025 Sales per Month
12 – Inventory Value by Month & Year
– Inventory Value per Month for 2021-2025
13 – Months of Inventory
– Months of Inventory per Month for 2021-2025
14 – Sector Revenue by Segments
– Concentration Segments by Top Companies
– Business Size Segments
– Business Structure Segments
15 – Market Size by State
16 – Market Size as a % of State GDP
17 – Sales as a % of State Manufacturing
18 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
19 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
– Business Size Segments – 1-4, 5-9, 10-20, 21-50, 51-100, 101-250, & 250+ employees
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
20 – Segmentation by Concentration (Top 50 Companies)
– Concentration Segments – Top 4, 5-8, 9-20, & 21-50 companies
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
21 – Market Share of Top 50 Companies
22 – Subsector Market Share of Top 50 Companies
23 – Segmentation by Business Structure
– Business Structure Segments – C-Corporations, S-Corporations, Partnerships, & Sole Proprietorships
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
24 – Revenue per Company by State
– Revenue per Company
25 – Revenue per Company by Segments
26 – Revenue per Facility by State
27 – Revenue per Facility by Segment
– Business Size, Concentration, & Structure
28 – Subsector Growth
– Sales and 5-Year Growth
29 – Subsector Statistics
– Sales per Company & Facility, and 5-Year Growth
30 – Consolidation Analysis
– 5-Year Growth of Companies & Locations
31 – Employment Consolidation Analysis
– 5-Year Growth of Employee Statistics
32 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Number of Companies & Facilities
– 5-Year Growth
33 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Facilities per Company
– Employees per Company
– 5-Year Growth
SECTION TWO
COST, CAPITAL & PROFIT BENCHMARKS
35 – Profitability & Financial Ratio Analysis
– Percent of Companies that are Profitable
– Average Net Income as a Percent of Revenue
– 10 of the Top Financial Ratios
– Assets and Liabilities indexed to industry revenue at 100
– Current & Non-Current Assets: 14 Categories
– Short-term, Long-term Liabilities, & Net Worth: 13 Categories
37 – OPEX
– Industry OPEX
– Revenue vs. OPEX Growth
– OPEX as a Percent of Revenue
– Trend Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
38 – OPEX by Company & Plant
– OPEX per Company & Facility
– Revenue vs. Expenses Growth per Plant
– Trend Analysis & Forecasts
Page 39 – OPEX Detail
– Employee Expenses: payroll, insurance, pension, defined contribution plans, fringe benefits, temps
– Cost of Materials: materials, parts, containers, packaging, cost of resale, electricity and fuels, contract work
– Buildings and Equipment: capex for equipment, rental or lease for equipment, capex for buildings and structures, rental or leases, repair and maintenance
– Other Operating Expenses: professional and technical services, IT software and hardware, data processing and communications, advertising, refuse removal, taxes and license fees, other
-Inventory Breakdown: finished goods, work-in-progress, materials and supplies
40 – Production Material Costs & Tariff Analysis
– Top Production Material Costs Breakdown
– Industry & Material Tariff Analysis – % of costs, import %, tariff costs, source countries
41 – Producer Pricing Index
– Annual PPI – Indexed to 2006
– Trend Analysis & Forecasts
– Monthly PPI Figures for the Past 4 Years
42 – Plant Utilization & Hours
– Plant Utilization Rate
– Plant Operational Hours per Week
– 2022-2025 Historical Figures by Quarter
43 – Reasons for Non-Full Production
– 7 Categories Quarterly Survey Results for Past 2 Years
44 – Productivity & Employment
– Revenue per Employee
– Total Employees
– Employees per Company
– Trend Analysis & Forecasts
45 – Employee Productivity by Segments
– Business Size, Concentration, & Structure
46 – Employee Productivity by State
47 –Subsector Sales & Payroll per Employee
– Absolute & 5-Year Growth
48 – Payroll Analysis
– Payroll per Employee, Company & Plant
– Trend Analysis & Forecasts
49 – Payroll per Company by Segments
50 – Payroll per Plant by Segments
51 – Payroll per Employee by Segments
52 – Payroll per Employee by State
53 – Organizational Composition
– % of Employees for 27 Job Categories
– Management & Finance
– Sales & Marketing
– Technology, Engineering, Science
– Service, Support & Training
– Operations
54 – Job Categorization Pay Ranges
– Management & Finance
– Sales, Service & Marketing
– Operations
– Pay Bands – Bottom 10% & 25%, Mean, Top 25% & 10%
55 – Top 20 Jobs Breakdown
56 – Top 20 Jobs Pay
57 – Employees per Company by Segments
58 – Employees per Plant by Segments
59 – Facilities per Company by Segments
60 – Total Employment by State
61 – Population to Every Employee by State
62 – Employees per Facility by State
63 – Overview of Kentley Insights
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Product Lines, Materials, and Jobs Covered in Report
PRODUCT LINES
Aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment, excluding hydraulic and pneumatic subassemblies and engines
Aircraft propellers and helicopter rotors
Developing and making prototypes of aircraft parts (excluding engines)
Other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing, nsk, total
MATERIAL COST CATEGORIES
Materials, ingredients, containers, and supplies, nsk
Structural landing gear, fuselage, empennage, and wing components including other structural components and engine mounts
Aircraft engine parts (excluding instruments)
Misc. fabricated metal products (excluding hardware, containers, screw machine, bearing components, castings, forgings, and wire)
Cost of all other materials and components, parts, containers, and supplies consumed
Aircraft metal hardware, including metal bolts, nuts, screws, washers, rivets, and other screw machine products
Iron and steel castings
Complete mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic subassemblies
Nonferrous metal shapes, forms, sheet, strip, powder, and wire (excluding castings / forgings), excluding aluminum and copper
Metal forgings
Semiconductors, including transistors, diodes, rectifiers, and integrated circuits for electronic circuitry, and related devices
INDUSTRY JOBS ANALYZED
Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers
Software Developers and Programmers
Industrial Engineers, Including Health and Safety
Aerospace Engineers
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Machinists
Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians
Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Mechanical Engineers
Engineering Technicians, Except Drafters
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators
Computer Control Programmers and Operators
Buyers and Purchasing Agents
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
Miscellaneous Business Operations Specialists
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
Logisticians
Machine Tool Cutting Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Architectural and Engineering Managers
Miscellaneous Electrical and Electronic Equipment Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
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