Airbus SE is a European aerospace corporation. While the company's primary business is the design and manufacture of commercial aircraft, it also operates separate divisions for Defence and Space and
Lagardère production plant in Blagnac, France
Global headquarters of Airbus at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport
Airbus A300, the company's first airliner and the world's first wide-body, twinjet aircraft
The Airbus A320 family is a series of narrow-body airliners developed and produced by Airbus, and is the best-selling airliner ever built. The A320 aircraft programme was launched in March 1984, first
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…design changes were later incorporated into the A300, resulting in the A300-600. Building on its success with the A300, Airbus developed the narrow-body A320 aircraft that was launched in 1987, which became and remains a major commercial success. The A320 was the first commercial jet to use a digital fly-by-wire…
An A320 in the Airbus corporate livery in 2012
The Joint European Transport JET2-100 concept
The A320 first prototype (retrofitted with IAE V2500-A1 engines) at the 1988 Farnborough Airshow
The first A320 was delivered to Air France on 28 March 1988; the early A320-100s had no wingtip fences.