Publish Date: September 2026
Updated Tariff & Recession Risk Analysis and Forecasts
The Aircraft & Spacecraft Parts Manufacturing Market Report covers the $325.5 billion industry which produces airframe structures, propulsion systems, control elements, and specialized components for aviation, space, and defense applications. Competitive structure features global aerospace corporations alongside specialized manufacturers addressing particular component categories or technology segments. Market requirements emphasize extraordinary reliability for safety-critical applications, weight optimization enhancing performance and efficiency, specialized functionality addressing particular aerospace requirements, and increasingly digital design integration supporting modern development processes. Manufacturers face challenges balancing sophisticated engineering requirements, extraordinarily stringent quality standards, specialized material science expertise, and complex international trade considerations directly affecting global aerospace supply chains. Successful companies establish advantages through advanced engineering optimizing performance and reliability, manufacturing precision ensuring consistent quality, comprehensive certification documentation validating compliance, and increasingly digital capabilities supporting modern aerospace development processes in a sector where safety reputation and performance reliability drive supplier selection decisions.
Aircraft & Spacecraft Parts Manufacturing Industry Definition
Aircraft & Spacecraft Parts Manufacturing produces vehicles and components for aviation, space exploration, and orbital operations. Companies design and build highly specialized systems meeting exceptional reliability, performance, and safety requirements for atmospheric and space flight. Manufacturing processes include precision machining of critical components, advanced composite fabrication, electronic system integration, and comprehensive testing under simulated operating conditions. These businesses create advanced transportation and exploration capabilities for commercial, government, and military applications. The industry continuously advances safety systems, material technologies, propulsion efficiency, and increasingly focuses on autonomous capabilities, emissions reduction, and specialized designs for emerging air mobility and space exploration requirements.
NAICS Code: 3364
Total # of Companies: 1,305
Total # of Factories / Facilities: 1,684
Industry Employees: 446,988
Market Size: $325.5 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 & spacecraft parts manufacturing sector.
Estimated Tariff Cost: $13.7 billion
Relative Tariff Impact: VERY HIGH
Aircraft & Spacecraft Parts Manufacturing Report Format
The 2026 U.S. Aircraft & Spacecraft 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.
With more than one hundred industry analyses and data sets covering trends from 2017 to 2025 and forecasts for 2026 and 2030, this report is one of the comprehensive assessments of the industry. The report includes market size & growth, detailed breakdown on 26 expenses, financial ratio benchmarks, forecasts, inventory trends & analysis, detailed breakdown of 31 balance sheet items, numerous industry segmentations, industry concentration analysis, material costs analysis, profitability metrics, state benchmarks, plant capacity analysis, employee role analysis, inflation trend benchmarks, compensation analysis, in-depth productivity analysis, and numerous other data sets.
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Report Table of Contents
Explore the below table of contents to understand the extensive statistical data sets in this report and why thousands of executives, consultants, bankers, accountants, and other professionals trust Kentley Insights for their market research needs.
The data source for the report is extensive annual expense, revenue, wage, operational, and economic surveys administered by federal and private institutions and filled out by a majority of companies in the aircraft & spacecraft 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 & Methodology
– Sector Definition & Examples
– Market Commentary
4 – Report Synopsis – Revenue & Growth
5 – Report Synopsis – Costs & Profitability
SECTION ONE
REVENUE & GROWTH
7 – Market Size Details
– Industry Revenues, Companies, & Facilities
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
8 – Growth Benchmarks
– Sales per Company and Plant
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
9 – Product Lines Revenue
10 – BCG Matrix – Income vs. Revenue Growth
11 – Total Industry Sales by Month & Year (2021-2025)
12 – Inventory Value by Month & Year (2021-2025)
13 – Months of Inventory (2021-2025)
14 – Sector Revenue by Segments
– Business Concentration, Size, & Structure
15 – Market Size by State
– Market Size and Rankings
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
25 – Revenue per Company by Segments
26 – Revenue per Facility by State
27 – Revenue per Facility by Segment
28 – Subsector Market Size & Growth
29 – Subsector Sales per Company & Plant
30 – 5-Year Consolidation Analysis
31 – Employment Consolidation Analysis
32 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Number of Companies & Facilities
33 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Facilities & Employees per Company
COST, CAPITAL & FINANCIALS
35 – Profitability & Financial Ratio Analysis
Page 36 – Balance Sheet Metrics
– Assets and Liabilities indexed to industry revenue at 100
– 16 Current & Non-Current Assets Categories
– 15 Short-term, Long-term Liabilities, & Net Worth
37 – OPEX
– Industry OPEX Analysis
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
38 – OPEX by Company & Plant
– OPEX per Company & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
Page 39 – OPEX Detail
– 6 Employee Expense Categories
– 8 Cost of Material Categories
– 6 Buildings and Equipment Categories
– 8 Other Operating Expense Categories
-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
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 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 Number of Employees
– Employees per Company
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
45 – Employee Productivity by Segments
46 – Employee Productivity by State
47 –Subsector Sales & Payroll per Employee
48 – Payroll
– Payroll per Employee, Company, & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 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 – Employee Composition
– % of Employees for 27 Job Categories
54 – Job Categorization Pay Ranges
– Pay Bands – Bottom 10% & 25%, Mean, Top 25% & 10%
55 – Top 20 Jobs Breakdown
56 – Top 20 Jobs Pay
– Pay Bands
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 manufacturing
Other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing
Aircraft engine and engine parts manufacturing
Guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing
Guided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit and propulsion unit parts manufacturing
Other guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing
MATERIAL COST CATEGORIES
Cost of all other materials and components, parts, containers, and supplies consumed
Aircraft engines
Aircraft engine parts (excluding instruments)
Structural landing gear, fuselage, empennage, and wing components including other structural components and engine mounts
Guided missile and space vehicle engines, propulsion units, and parts
Materials, ingredients, containers, and supplies, nsk
Misc. fabricated metal products (excluding hardware, containers, screw machine, bearing components, castings, forgings, and wire)
Aircraft metal hardware, including metal bolts, nuts, screws, washers, rivets, and other screw machine products
Semiconductors, including transistors, diodes, rectifiers, and integrated circuits for electronic circuitry, and related devices
Iron and steel castings
Complete mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic subassemblies
Metal forgings
Nonferrous metal shapes, forms, sheet, strip, powder, and wire (excluding castings / forgings), excluding aluminum and copper
Capacitors, resistors, coils, transformers, and other inductors
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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