The Airbus A340-500 has an operating range of 16,700 kilometres (9,000 nmi), the third longest range of any commercial jet after the Boeing 777-200LR (range of 17,446 km or 9,420 nautical miles) and the Airbus A350-900ULR (range of 18,000 km or 9,700 nautical miles). The longer-range widebody products- the twin-jet A330 and the four-engine A340- have efficient wings, enhanced by winglets. The A320 family's primary competitor is the Boeing 737 family. A stretched version is known as the A321. The A318 and A319 are shorter derivatives with some of the latter under construction for the corporate business jet market as Airbus Corporate Jets. The A320 has been, and continues to be, a major commercial success. A shorter, re-winged, re-engined variant of the A300 is known as the A310.īuilding on its success, Airbus launched the A320, the first commercial jet to use a digital fly-by-wire control system. The Airbus product line started with the A300 in 1972, the world's first twin-aisle, twin-engined aircraft. The Airbus A380, the world's largest airliner The holding company was given its present name in April 2017. Due to the dominance of the Airbus SAS division within Airbus Group SE, the executive committees of the parent and subsidiary companies were aligned in January 2017, but the companies were kept as separate legal entities. EADS NV was renamed Airbus Group NV and SE in 2014, and 2015, respectively. In 2006, EADS acquired BAE Systems's remaining 20% of Airbus. In 2001, Airbus Industrie GIE was reorganised as Airbus SAS, a simplified joint-stock company. In addition to other subsidiaries pertaining to security and space activities, EADS owned 100% of the pre-existing Eurocopter SA, established in 1992, as well as 80% of Airbus Industrie GIE. In 2000, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) NV was established. The current company is the product of consolidation in the European aerospace industry tracing back to the formation of the Airbus Industrie GIE consortium in 1970. The company is led by CEO Guillaume Faury and is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. Its shares are traded in France, Germany and Spain. The 'SE' in its corporate name means it is a societas Europaea, which enables it to be registered as a European rather than a national corporation. Īirbus's registered headquarters is in Leiden, Netherlands, but its head office is located in Toulouse, France. By October 2016, the global Airbus fleet have performed more than 110 million flights, totalling over 215 billion kilometres and carrying 12 billion passengers. The 12,000th aircraft, an A220, was delivered to Delta Air Lines on. The 6,000th aircraft, an A380, was delivered to Emirates on 19 January 2010, while its 10,000th aircraft, an A350-900, was delivered to Singapore Airlines on 14 October 2016. The company produces and markets the first commercially viable digital fly-by-wire airliner, the Airbus A320, and the world's largest passenger airliner, the A380. Final assembly production is based in Toulouse, France Hamburg, Germany Seville, Spain Tianjin, China Mobile, United States and Montreal, Canada.
The company's main civil aeroplane business is conducted through the French company Airbus S.A.S., based in Blagnac, a suburb of Toulouse, with production and manufacturing facilities mostly in the European Union and the United Kingdom but also in China, the United States and Canada. As of 2019, Airbus is the world's largest airliner manufacturer. The company has three divisions: Commercial Aircraft (Airbus S.A.S.), Defence and Space, and Helicopters, the third being the largest in its industry in terms of revenues and turbine helicopter deliveries. Airbus designs, manufactures and sells civil and military aerospace products worldwide and manufactures aircraft in Europe and various countries outside Europe.
Airbus SE ( / ˈ ɛər b ʌ s/ French: ( listen) German: ( listen) Spanish: ) is a European multinational aerospace corporation.
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