Aircraft Transparencies Market Outlook -2027  

The global aircraft transparencies market is experiencing a significant growth due to rise in global air traffic passenger. Aircraft transparencies compromise coatings applied on transparent aircraft interiors such as windows, windshields, canopies, and windscreen, among others. Aircraft transparencies provide optical clarity, electro-chrome (electronically controlled transparent glazing), anti-fog, de-icing, and improved light transmission. Transparency coatings are made of glass, acrylic, and polycarbonate substrates. Moreover, aircraft transparencies provide protection from UV rays at high altitudes. In addition, these materials have excellent thermal & mechanical property, making them ideal to be used on aircraft windshields & windows.

Market scope and structure analysis:

COVID-19 scenario analysis: 

Aircraft transparencies producers are forced to shut down production operations due to government-imposed lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Aircraft manufacturers are facing operational issues due to supply chain disruption caused by the government initiatives to control the COVID-19 outbreak.

Aircraft overhaul services are adversely affected due to lack of workforce, owing to the government-imposed transport restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19. 

Governments around the world are diverting financial resources to combat COVID-19 pandemic; hence, creating a budget restraint for military agencies and henceforth forcing them to postpone procurement of
essential components & products for military aircraft transparencies. 

Travel bans imposed by nations worldwide to slow the spread of COVID-19, has created financial strain on airlines, owing to the necessary maintenance expenditure on aircrafts without any source of revenue generation.

Top impacting factors: market scenario analysis, trends, drivers, and impact analysis

Surge in manufacturing of passenger aircraft, increase in demand for military transparency system, and rise in adoption of polycarbonate materials are some of the factors that drive the global aircraft transparencies market. However, high cost of maintenance & repair hinders the market growth. On the contrary, emergence of air taxis and R&D of new materials for transparency applications present new pathways in the industry.

The global aircraft transparencies market trends are as follows:

Demand for military transparency system

Aircraft transparencies are used in supersonic military aircrafts such as F-35 Lightning II (American al-weather stealth multi-role combat aircraft) and Eurofighter Typhoon (multi-national European multi-role fighter aircraft). Advanced low observable coatings of acrylic materials are applied to maintain stealth capabilities of such advanced aircrafts and protect from solar radiations at high altitude. For instance, in 2018, PPG Industries (paints, coatings, and specialty materials supplier headquartered in Pennsylvania, U.S.) received an order from Textron Inc. (aviation & automobile industry conglomerate based in Rhodes Island, U.S.) to supply heated pilot & co-pilot windshields for Bell Helicopters (a subsidiary of Textron Inc.). Heated windshields prevent icing & fogging on windshields. Moreover, PPG Industries has developed an advanced material solution to provide enhanced protection to pilots & crew from harmful radiations such as ultraviolet A (UVA), ultraviolet B (UVB), and high energy visible blue (HEVBLUE) capable of damaging human eyes. Such demand for transparency system for military applications is expected to drive the global aircraft transparencies market.

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Key benefits of the report:

• This study presents the analytical depiction of the global aircraft transparencies industry along with the current trends and future estimations to determine the imminent investment pockets.
• The report presents information related to key drivers, restraints, and opportunities along with detailed analysis of the global aircraft transparencies market share.
• The current market is quantitatively analyzed from 2020 to 2027 to highlight the global aircraft transparencies market growth scenario.
• Porter’s five forces analysis illustrates the potency of buyers & suppliers in the market. 
• The report provides a detailed global aircraft transparencies market analysis based on competitive intensity and how the competition will take shape in coming years. 

Questions answered in the aircraft transparencies market research report:

• Which are the leading market players active in the aircraft transparencies market?
• What are the current trends that will influence the market in the next few years?
• What are the driving factors, restraints, and opportunities in the market?
• What are the projections for the future that would help in taking further strategic steps?