About us
We strive to develop innovative systems, and to help our partners fulfill their missions.
We strive to develop innovative systems, and to help our partners fulfill their missions.
Turgis Gaillard designs weapons to overcome.
To overcome military competitors, by maintaining multidomain dominance.
To overcome hazardous reliance, by renewing industrial production at home.
To overcome climate change, by decarbonizing economic activities.
Our teams design outstanding systems, produce high-quality parts, and support vehicles and infrastructure anytime, anywhere.
The difficulties we have mastered together amidst adversity and skepticism have forged a unique culture. It combines innovation, a taste for challenge, daring, and commits us to creating weapons to overcome.
To create weapon systems whose superiority is based on innovative architecture, using the best available technology.
To ensure the industrial sovereignty of France and its allies by guaranteeing the operational continuity of strategic infrastructure, both civilian and military.
To establish the conditions for sustainable development by decarbonizing economic activities.
Fanny Turgis and Patrick Gaillard
founders of Turgis Gaillard
2011 — Establishment of the design office
In 2011, Fanny Turgis and Patrick Gaillard created the Gerfaut system and set up a design office to develop it. Gerfaut provides digitalized close air support in counter-insurgency operations by integrating Safran Hammer stand-off weapon on a Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. Greater operational efficiency, cost efficiency, off-the-shelf components: Gerfaut summarizes the Turgis Gaillard method.
2015 — Acquisition of initial production capacities
In 2015, they acquired their first plant, Sefiam, to vertically integrate production of the design office. Sefiam is an industrial metalwork that originally designed and produced Ground Support Equipment for military aircraft. In 2016, the Group acquired Modelage Mécanique du Dauphiné (MMD), a company founded in 1927and specialized in the design and machining of aeronautical parts.
2018 — Development of maintenance activities
In 2017, they expanded to maintenance activities with the acquisition of CRD and CSB, followed by Graffeuille in 2018, Blois Aero Service, an aircraft MRO, in 2020, and LTM, in 2024.
In just a few years, the two-person design office has grown into an integrated group of over 350 people, inheriting the daring and strategic vision of its two founders.
Fanny Turgis is Group Chairwoman, Patrick Gaillard is CEO, assisted by Michel Catimel, Deputy CEO in charge of Performance, and Céline Bleau, Secretary General.
