GCAP joint venture Edgewing opens engineering hub in Turin

Edgewing has opened an engineering facility in Turin, its first site outside the company's headquarters in Reading, United Kingdom. The company said the site was inaugurated on Oct. 9, 2026.

Engineers from Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom will work there. Those are the three nations partnered in the Global Combat Air Programme. According to Edgewing, the Turin team will handle engineering work on the aircraft's systems and sub-systems, supporting development of the GCAP combat aircraft.

Edgewing is a joint venture between Leonardo, BAE Systems and Japan Aircraft Industrial Enhancement Co. Ltd. The joint GCAP Agency-Edgewing headquarters was set up in Reading in 2025. Turin is the first additional Edgewing site opened for engineering activities since then.

H.E. Ono Hikariko, Japan's ambassador to Italy, and H.E. Edward Llewellyn, the British ambassador to Italy, spoke at the inauguration, along with Maj. Gen. Domenico Ciotti of the Italian National Armaments Directorate, Piedmont regional minister Andrea Tronzano and Turin deputy mayor Michela Favaro. Lorenzo Mariani, chief executive and general manager of Leonardo, Marco Zoff, chief executive of Edgewing, and Maj. Gen. Giuseppe Lupoli, managing director of Edgewing Italy, also took part.