In the Fifties Willy Messerschmitt had rebiuld his firm and had begun to produce cars.
Later in thearly sixties he hab returned to the production of aircraft as the German Air Force had introduced the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and had taken over the Aircraft firms Bölkow and Blohm so that the firm has the name Misserschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm.
In the seventies the conzern had taken part at the Production of the Tornado and some components for the Airbus Company.
Today the Messerschmitt conzern is a doughter Business of the European Air Defence and Space Company (EADS)who takes part at the production of the Airbus A380 und the Eurofighter Typhoon (for example).