Toulouse Aerospace

Toulouse Aerospace
Toulouse Aerospace
	The site in 2010: the old airfield runway and housing buildings under construction in the northern part (Saint-Exupéry district)
	Toulouse Aerospace Toulouse Aerospace
	Coordinates: 43°34′12″N 1°28′48″E / 43.57000°N 1.48000°E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Communes	Toulouse
Website	toulouseaerospace.com

Toulouse Aerospace, formerly Montaudran Aerospace or Aerospace Campus, is a campus project linked to the aeronautics, space and embedded systems jobs and part of Aerospace Valley.^[1] Located in Toulouse in the Montaudran district, it will be built entirely by the Toulouse Métropole. Its surface area will be 40 hectares on the site of the former Toulouse-Montaudran airport which saw the beginnings of Aéropostale.^[2]

Description

It is the town planner David Mangin^[3] who will direct the entire project, construction of which began in the first quarter of 2011. The Institut Clément Ader, from the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, has set up within the walls of the Espace Clément Ader in March 2014, and was inaugurated in October.

Building B 612 of 26,140 m2 opened its doors on July 1, 2018.

Mangin's project was preferred for the place it gave to the preservation of the heritage of Aéropostale: ten hectares should be dedicated to it and certain historic buildings will be preserved (map room, Château Petit Raynal, etc.), to make the L'Envol des pionniers museum.^[4]

Project

Like the Cancéropôle for oncology, this involves bringing together in the same place the main players in training and research in a field, in this case aeronautics and space:

Bringing together the two Toulouse aeronautical grandes écoles of the GEA: ENAC and SUPAERO – as well as universities and university institutes located in the same geographical area: Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University, INSA Toulouse and INPT. The Maison de la formation Jacqueline Auriol will thus bring together under the same roof all Toulouse training courses in mechanical and production engineering in the aeronautics and space sector (opening planned for January 2022).
Group of 1000 researchers mainly from ONERA, CCR EADS, CNRS, and CNES.
Creation of infrastructure necessary for the development of SMEs and provision of common services.^[5]

This project is a continuation of the Rangueil scientific complex where ISAE, ENAC, INSA Toulouse, Paul-Sabatier University, LAAS-CNRS, CNES are already located... and close to important players such as Airbus, Airbus Defense and Space, Thales Alenia Space, Freescale, Latécoère, Siemens VDO Automotive, Thales. Toulouse Aerospace will therefore be the whole made up of this new area under development and the current Rangueil complex. It is part of the continuation of making Toulouse the international capital of aeronautics and space.^[6]