Executive Appointments & Leadership Moves Aircraft Manufacturing (OEMs) Airbus ATR

ATR names Damien Proust senior VP engineering, replacing Daniel Cuchet as head of design organisation

ATR’s Airbus-Leonardo joint venture is reshuffling its technical leadership: Damien Proust replaces Daniel Cuchet as senior vice-president engineering and head of design organisation, effective 1 May. Proust joins from Airbus, where he was vice-president and head of propulsion airframe, covering research, development, production and in-service support activities for pylons.

Discovered 2026-04-15T05:11:32.927874-07:00 | 2026-04-15T05:11:32.927874-07:00

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What Hype is tracking

Technical leadership changes at ATR’s design organisation can influence how the turboprop OEM manages engineering priorities and development execution across its programme portfolio.
Proust’s background overseeing propulsion airframe activities at Airbus aligns with ATR’s need to integrate propulsion/system and design work as the type evolves—an engineering focus that complements broader ATR industrial moves such as Airbus studying an ATR final-assembly line in India [source:eedd11d3-4b4c-4170-854f-fc9063318830].
With ATR operating amid production and supply-chain pressure [source:d98b1cbd-3b01-4045-841b-de8cbf4a3a64], leadership at engineering/design is a key signal for how the company plans to sustain delivery performance and programme momentum.

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