Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Aerospace and defense contractors worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,023 aerospace and defense contractors worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 467,268 professional contacts across them, including 78,297 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Bangalore the largest hub.
This list covers aerospace and defense contractors worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 30, 2026. Country and city lists for aerospace and defense contractors follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest aerospace and defense contractors worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 109,053 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Boeing is a leading global aerospace company that designs, builds and supports commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 75,810 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically-advanced solutions in aerospace, defence, and connected services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 74,984 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a close-knit community of big thinkers collaborating to keep the world safe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 32,836 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leonardo is a global security company that realises multi-domain technological capabilities in AD & S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 21,373 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A global aerospace company headquartered in Brazil, Embraer has businesses in Commercial and Executive Aviation, Defense & Security, and Agricultural Aviation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 12,898 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 11,598 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Inventing, designing and building what’s best in aerospace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 8,739 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From Gulfstream business jets and combat vehicles to nuclear-powered submarines and communications systems, people around the world depend on our products and services for their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 7,445 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GKN Aerospace is the world’s leading multi-technology tier 1 aerospace supplier, with a mission to be the most trusted and sustainable partner in the sky.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 6,611 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dassault Aviation is a French aerospace company that shapes the future by designing and building military aircraft, business jets and space systems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 4,939 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ArianeGroup is an industrial company delivering critical missions for the space and defence sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 4,675 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AAR is a $2.8B global aerospace and defense aftermarket solutions company with operations in 20+ countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 4,643 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd.(IAI) is Israel’s largest aerospace and defense company specializing in developing and manufacturing advanced, state-of-the-art systems for air…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 4,456 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Zodiac Aerospace is a world leader in aerospace equipment and systems for commercial, regional and business aircraft, as well as helicopters and space applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 4,452 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Every second, a plane takes off with UTC Aerospace Systems equipment onboard.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 3,399 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Orbital ATK is built on the strong heritage of two great companies, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ATK, with a history of collaboration providing reliable, affordable and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3,076 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Avio Aero is a GE Aerospace company specialized in the design, production and maintenance of components and systems for the civil and military aeronautical industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3,002 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Parker is at the forefront of aviation technologies with products and services found nose-to-tail across the aircraft, keeping flight safe, reliable, comfortable, and efficient.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 2,449 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Goodrich Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, is a global supplier of systems and services to the aerospace, defense and homeland security markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2,218 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2,006 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Textron Systems has been providing innovative solutions to the defense, homeland security and aerospace communities for more than 50 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,979 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tier 1 to the world’s leading industry manufacturers (Airbus, BAE Systems, Boeing, Bombardier, Dassault Aviation, Embraer, Honda Aircraft Company, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,923 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Crane Aerospace & Electronics supplies critical systems and components to the aerospace and defense markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,614 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Magellan Aerospace (TSX:MAL) is a global aerospace company that provides complex assemblies and systems solutions to aircraft and engine manufacturers, and defence and space…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,525 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Defense is a silent shield in an unpredictable world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: aerospace and defense contractors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names aerospace and defense contractors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of aerospace and defense contractors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name aerospace and defense contractors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Aerospace and defense contractors worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 30, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among aerospace and defense contractors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for aerospace and defense contractors are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “aerospace and defense contractors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names aerospace and defense contractors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among aerospace and defense contractors, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 78,297 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 30, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Aerospace and defense contractors by location
4 lists · largest firstEvery Aerospace and defense contractors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names aerospace and defense contractors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many aerospace and defense contractors are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,023 aerospace and defense contractors worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Boeing, headquartered in Arlington, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most aerospace and defense contractors?
The United States leads with 479 companies, followed by India (99) and Türkiye (50). Every aerospace and defense contractors list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most aerospace and defense contractors?
Bangalore leads with 25 headquartered companies, followed by Huntsville (17) and Ankara (16).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 78,297 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,023 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 30, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.