GECI is founded by Serge Bitboul, offering an innovative speciality: computerised calculation of structures using NASTRAN software, designed by NASA, developed for the space race and used in the transport industry.

The Group grows at a more rapid pace and goes international, becoming GECI International. It adopts a leading role in structural analysis and computer-aided simulations, before extending its range of services to design and development. This marks the beginning of a global network of top-level experts and consultants.

• GECI International opens several offices abroad (UK, South Africa and Asia) and expands its national presence.
• The Group extends its range of services to industry and strategic consulting and takes part in major projects such as the development of the Indonesian N250 aircraft and the KTX-1, a South Korean plane.

• The Group continues to develop and is floated on the Euronext Second Market in Paris.
• GECI International begins a close collaboration with Fairchild Dornier.
• The first Skylander studies are launched by chief engineer Desmond Norman, one of the people behind the Islander aircraft, 1,200 of which were sold.

• Offices are opened in Bremen and Shanghai.
• Involvement in large-scale projects such as the Airbus A380 and the Dassault F7X, together with the launch of the A400M, enables GECI International to consolidate its leading position in the aero-structural design industry.
• Purchases DoPS (Germany), the core business of which is production engineering.

GECI International teams participate alongside Astrium Space Transportation in the ESC A upper cryogenic stage of the European Ariane 5 launcher.

The GECI International Group extends its involvement in the transport sector and takes over AGIR, a company specialising in marine engineering and a partner of DCN.

GECI International participates in the design of a new generation of high-speed trains and begins work on a project for the London Underground.

• GECI’s teams are selected to manufacture the engine nacelle pylons and air inlets for the latest aircraft from Airbus, the A350XWB. GECI also carries out refits on the interiors of planes and yachts.
• Official launch of the Skylander programme in Lorraine. This multi-mission light aircraft is wholly designed by GECI International, via its Sky Aircraft subsidiary founded in October 2008.
• Majority interest acquired in the capital of Reims Aviation Industries.

• The Sky Aircraft teams now number more than 130 people in Chambley.
• The GECI Aviation industrial division, combining Sky Aircraft and Reims Aviation, is created.
• First Skylander orders placed at the Le Bourget International Air Show.
• GECI International opens offices in Bordeaux to develop the business of fitting out planes, trains and yachts. • A memorandum of understanding is signed for 10 SK-105s with a company in the United Arab Emirates during the Dubai Trade Fair.

• GECI Aviation, a company listed on Alternext, is founded on the 9th of March, consolidating the Group's aircraft building businesses with its two subsidiaries, Reims Aviation Industries and Sky Aircraft.
• GECI International wins a 500,000-hour study contract for the Airbus A400M.
• “First metal cut” for parts for the Skylander on the 27th of April in Lorraine.
• Reims Aviation Industries, in collaboration with EADS-DS, is awarded the tender from the French Customs Authority to install systems on 8 surveillance aircraft.
• A memorandum of understanding is signed for 10 F406 aircraft with a Chinese client. The first confirmed order for three units is placed on the 15th of September.
• Reims Aviation Industries begins production on the 100th F406 and announces an increase in production rate.
• In December, Sky Aircraft publishes a list of the main equipment manufacturers and suppliers for the Skylander SK-105.
• 180 employees work on development of the SK-105 in Chambley.