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Pilatus Annual Report 2019 PILATUS AIRCRAFT LTD ANNUAL REPORT 2019 3 BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ REPORT 7 EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT REPORT 13 BUSINESS UNIT GENERAL AVIATION 21 BUSINESS UNIT GOVERNMENT AVIATION 28 OPERATIONS 35 HUMAN RESOURCES 36 AIRPORT BUOCHS LTD 40 FACTS AND FIGURES 43 MANAGEMENT 45 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Follow us on social media Pilatus Aircraft Ltd | Annual Report 2019 FACTS AND FIGURES KEY FIGURES AT A GLANCE TOTAL SALES EBIT 1,170 CHF million 153 CHF million SALES BY BUSINESS UNITS AIRCRAFT IN NET SALES 83 28.5 % Government Aviation 134 Aircraft 40 71.5 % General Aviation 11 Pilatus Aircraft Ltd | Annual Report 2019 SALES BY REGION 24.5 % Europe 17.9 % Asia 39 % The Americas 2.1 % Africa 16.5 % Australia ORDERS RECEIVED ORDER BOOK VALUE 2019 2.0 CHF billion 1.1 CHF billion EMPLOYEES 16 % 54 % Women in Production 56 139 Nations Apprentices 2,289 9.5 93 % Full-time Years of service in Switzerland Equivalents BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ REPORT PREPARED FOR TURBULENCE In our 80-year company history, 2019 will be remembered market niches. We have successfully launched the as a very challenging business year. We successfully PC-24 with 75 deliveries to date and demand is there. rolled out our most ambitious production programme The elimination of teething problems has taken longer ever, with 134 aircraft. We generated turnover in excess than expected, however, and this has impacted negatively of one billion Swiss francs with an operating income of on results. But we owe it to our customers! Which is 153 million Swiss francs, and incoming orders totalled why their feedback is so important. Together with our 1.1 billion Swiss francs – figures which should inspire suppliers, who also have a contribution to make, our goal confidence for the years ahead. But the current corona is to ensure that the PC-24 offers customers the same pandemic has caused severe turbulence and our chosen outstanding level of reliability as all our other aircraft. heading needs constantly to be adjusted on the basis of Certification for operations on grass runways, or on wet evolving facts. Adjusting route and altitude as required is dirt and snow, was obtained at the end of January 2020, something that every pilot does naturally. And so we making the PC-24 the world’s most flexible business jet presently find ourselves returning to the basics which ever. The PC-24 has proven that it can fly all the missions every pilot learns from the first hour of instruction we initially promised to our customers. onwards – good airmanship! Aviate, navigate, communicate. In other words: keep the company under control, treat Feedback in response to the PC-12 NGX, which was problems analytically and take fact-based action and, unveiled to the general public in autumn 2019, has been finally, communicate. outstanding. According to a longstanding motto, we either do what we do properly – or we don’t do it at all! Our ONGOING DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES continuing development of the PC-12 demonstrates our We are committed to continuing product improvement commitment to that sentiment. Our reputation is first-class, to further reinforce the leader position we enjoy in our our customers have enormous confidence in us. Pilatus Aircraft Ltd | Annual Report 2019 | 3 See how the first PC-24 of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia lands on a rough field runway. pilatus-aircraft.com/videos 30°54'60"S |135°18'33"E BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ REPORT We nurture similar ambitions in the trainer aircraft LEGISLATIVE CONFUSION PUTS JOBS IN JEOPARDY market: here too we aim to satisfy our customers’ In 2019, the Swiss government took legal action against ever stricter requirements. Through ongoing product us for alleged deficiencies in notification procedures. improvement and virtual reality solutions, we assist air We were accused of not declaring service work performed forces around the world in providing ever more efficient by our technicians at customer sites. That is simply not training to future pilots. The Spanish Air Force’s decision – the Pilatus way. We note with satisfaction the Federal the Ejército del Aire – to purchase 24 PC-21s and Prosecutor’s decision to close the criminal investigation simulators comes as further confirmation that our subsequent to finding there was no fault on our part. training system leads the market worldwide. At the same time, we feel strongly that all involved must find a way of providing the Swiss labour market with clear, COMPETITIVE THROUGH INNOVATION reliable laws and regulations. Regulatory uncertainties Lean and healthy operations necessarily involve are fatal for Swiss entrepreneurs and job security. efforts to reduce costs. We have committed ourselves to Switzerland as a production location and have If our country is unable to guarantee fair export terms for commissioned another large production hall for partially a value-drive company, allowing our competitors to walk automated manufacture of PC-24 structures. We aim away with fleet contracts because we are not regarded as to drive automation forward with further investments to reliable, then things are likely to be difficult for business place ourselves on an equal cost footing with low-wage operators in Switzerland. Who would buy an aircraft, or countries within the next three years. We are currently in any other product for that matter, if the manufacturer the process of rolling out lean manufacturing processes cannot provide assurance of on-site repairs should they across the company to increase efficiency even further be required? No one! and reduce capital lockup. It will not be easy, but it is the only way to safeguard our commitment to Switzerland in But I shall not finish on a gloomy note. We work very hard. the long term. We earn a decent amount. We have sufficient financial resources to fund future projects and investment in Throughout the past year we have also taken a close training for our employees. We are also capable of paying and careful look at topics that will occupy our attention our shareholders a fair dividend. We are debt-free and in the future: product strategies, new technologies and have the full support of our shareholders for our overall production methods, digitalisation and our organisation, strategy. We shall do everything possible to see that but also social, political and ecological challenges. things continue in the same way despite the difficult conditions. The bees which star in the story which UNCERTAINTY IS THE WATCHWORD OF 2020 accompanies this Annual Report make excellent role We started the new year with orders in hand worth two models: hard-working, intelligent, excellent communicators, billion Swiss francs – not including the major order placed incredibly efficient, with a clear organisation and flat by the Spanish Air Force! But the corona crisis will hierarchies. But let us also bear in mind that eternal undoubtedly leave traces and dampen perspectives which compromise is not the only solution. Bees can sting appeared promising earlier in the year. And yet we are in defence if necessary – like Pilatus! determined, even in these difficult circumstances, to provide our customers with the best possible support to safeguard their flight operations. Irrespective of the crisis, we are erecting our own company building at the international airport in Adelaide, Australia, with private access to the Oscar J. Schwenk runway. This will give us a base for maintenance and Chairman repair work so that we can provide even better service to our customers in Australia and New Zealand. Pilatus Aircraft Ltd | Annual Report 2019 | 5 46°41'3"N | 8°22'44"E EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT REPORT MORE KNOW-HOW, BETTER TEAMWORK 2019 saw us achieve many of our goals, whilst also a gain in experience which will impact positively on the adding to our acquired know-how and improving entire product range. Besides meeting the financial and teamwork. The new shop floor management concept has operational objectives of the 2019 financial year, this quickly delivered benefits. Applied to day-to-day huge step forward in development is the greatest source problems in our operations areas – Logistics, Production of satisfaction for me. and Assembly – it provides a rapid means of identifying solutions. In a very short time, these areas have succeeded PC-21 ORDER FROM SPAIN in reaching agreements and setting priorities at the The PC-21 order from Spain signed at the end of appropriate levels. As a result, we have dramatically January 2020 marked the achievement of an important reduced the volume of missing materials, optimised goal. A trainer contract is vital to ensure optimum use processes and taken some of the workload off our of capacity across every area in the company – and now management. The strong sense of cohesion between we have it! Spain is the ninth air force customer to opt employees and the additional know-how acquired from for the PC-21 and Pilatus is delighted to have won a the acceleration of PC-24 series production represent new customer with a high impact in terms of image. Pilatus Aircraft Ltd | Annual Report 2019 | 7 EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT REPORT Over the past year, competition in both business units encouraging. It also shows, once again, that the market has become tangibly more intense: aggressive competitors demands constant innovation. We can deliver that, and motivate our efforts to become even fitter. With that in stand for products and services never seen before: mind, we have accelerated the transition towards greater the PC-12 NGX comes – for the first time ever in a digitalisation. Our processes are extremely complex and turboprop – with an electronic propeller and engine the requirements are very high: every year, we produce control system, plus automatic thrust adjustment. over two million components involving 67,000 production orders.
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