Definition of Aero vodochody

For the US manufacturer named Aero, see Aero (US aircraft manufacturer).

After the fall of socialism in Czechoslovakia (1989) and in the rest of Eastern Europe, the company lost a major portion of its main market in jet trainers. The sales of military aircraft declined in the early 1990s in Eastern Europe as well as in the NATO countries where the entry of a new producer was obviously unwanted. Aero was controlled for several years by Boeing.