[1] Companies based in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region include the aircraft manufacturer Airbus and Lufthansa Technik.
[5] As of 2012, it had over 40,000 employees[6] making it one of the largest sites for civil aviation in the world.
In 2001, companies, universities and government bodies collaborated forming Hamburg Aviation.
This developed into the “Luftfahrtcluster Metropolregion Hamburg E.V.” association, with 15 founding members, officially established in 2011.
Its mission statement is to promote the aviation industry in the Hamburg business cluster.