Fretting fatigue tests were performed in an AA7050-T7451 alloy, with both contact load and fatigue alternate stresses kept constants. Only the applied mean stress, responsible for the maximum and minimum cyclic stresses are varied for each test condition. Such results are compared with the ones from the conventional fatigue tests obtained for the studied material. Similarly to the conventional fatigue results, it was observed that increasing the mean stress, lead to a reduced fretting fatigue life. There were cases that, crack nucleation took place due to the severity of the fretting loads, and they were propagated due to the applied fatigue stress, even with the maximum cyclic stress close to zero, which is considered too low to initiate a crack, leading the specimens to fracture. For cyclic loading totally compressive, again crack nucleation took place, due to the fretting loading, and the cracks did not propagated, leading the specimen to infinite life. The fretting effect in conjunction with fatigue loads significantly reduces the specimen life.