Airbus

History

Catalog — Aircraft

• 1972

  Airbus A300 Sheet pending

  Variants (13)

  • A300-600
  • A300-600F
  • A300-600R
  • A300-600RC
  • A300-600RF
  • A300-620C
  • A300B1
  • A300B2-100
  • A300B2-200
  • A300B2-320
  • A300B4-100
  • A300B4-200
  • A300B4-200FFCC
• 1982

  Airbus A310

  The Airbus A310 is a wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Airbus Industrie GIE, then a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers. It grew out of the recognition that there was demand for an aircraft smaller than the A300, the world's first twin-jet wide-body. Keeping the same eight-abreast cross-section, the A310 is 6.95 m shorter than the initial A300 variants, has a smaller wing — down from 260 to 219 m² — and a longer range, up to 5,150 nautical miles. The programme was launched on 7 July 1978 with orders from Swissair and Lufthansa. The first prototype flew on 3 April 1982 and the type received its certificate on 11 March 1983, entering revenue service with Swissair in April of that year. Its direct rival was the Boeing 767-200, introduced six months earlier. The A310 brought in a two-crew glass cockpit, later adopted on the A300-600 with a common type rating, and could seat 220 passengers in two classes or 240 in all-economy. Its longer range and ETOPS certification opened transatlantic routes to it, and it was also offered as a freighter and in military guises: the A310 MRT multi-role transport and, developed from it, the A310 MRTT multi-role tanker transport. Airbus replaced it in the range with the A330-200, which shares its fuselage cross-section. A total of 255 aircraft were built, the last delivered in June 1998; as of January 2025 only 33 remained in service.

• 1987

  Airbus A320 Sheet pending

  Variants (4)

  • A320-100
  • A320-200
  • A320neo
  • A320P2F
• 1991

  Airbus A340 Sheet pending

  Variants (4)

  • A340-200
  • A340-300
  • A340-500
  • A340-600
• 1992

  Airbus A330 Sheet pending

  Variants (9)

  • A330-200
  • A330-200F
  • A330-300
  • A330-800
  • A330-900
  • A330P2F
  • A330 Regional
  • ACJ330
  • ACJ330neo
• 1993

  Airbus A321 Sheet pending

  Variants (6)

  • A321-100
  • A321-200
  • A321LR
  • A321neo
  • A321P2F
  • A321XLR
• 1994

  Airbus Beluga Sheet pending

  Variants (1)

  • A300-600ST
• 1995

  Airbus A319 Sheet pending

  Variants (5)

  • A319-100
  • A319LR
  • A319 MPA
  • A319neo
  • ACJ319
• 1997

  Airbus C295 Sheet pending

  Variants (12)

  • AC-295
  • C-295 AEW&C
  • C-295 Firefighter
  • C-295 ISR
  • C-295M
  • C-295 MPA Persuader
  • C-295 SIGINT
  • C-295W
  • CC-295 Kingfisher
  • CN-295
  • CN-295 MSA
  • KC-295
• 2002

  Airbus A318 Sheet pending

  Variants (2)

  • A318-100
  • A318 Elite
• 2005

  Airbus A380

  The Airbus A380 is the largest passenger aircraft ever built: the only commercial jet with two full-length decks, carrying more than 500 passengers in typical layouts and certified for up to 853. It was Europe's great bet on the 21st-century sky: after studies begun in 1994, the programme was launched in 2000 with a clear premise — to challenge the 747's reign on the great hub-to-hub routes. Building it demanded a continental industrial chain, with giant sections travelling by ship, barge and road to the Toulouse assembly line. It first flew on 27 April 2005 and entered service with Singapore Airlines in 2007. For passengers it was a comfort revolution — quiet, stable, with unheard-of space — and Emirates made it the backbone of its global network. The market, however, turned to efficient point-to-point twinjets, and production closed in 2021. The pandemic seemed to doom it, but recovering demand brought the "superjumbo" back into the air: it remains the king of maximum-density routes and the airliner passengers love most.

• 2007

  Airbus A330 MRTT Sheet pending

  Variants (8)

  • A330 MRTT
  • A330 MRTT+
  • CC-330 Husky
  • KC-30A
  • KC-330 Cygnus
  • KC-45A
  • Voyager KC2
  • Voyager KC3
• 2009

  Airbus A400M Atlas Sheet pending

  Variants (2)

  • A400M-180
  • A400M Grizzly
• 2009

  Airbus Helicopters H175 Sheet pending

  Variants (3)

  • EC175
  • H175
  • H175M
• 2013

  Airbus A350 Sheet pending

  Variants (5)

  • A350-1000
  • A350-900
  • A350-900ULR
  • A350F
  • ACJ350
• 2013

  Airbus A220 Sheet pending

  Variants (3)

  • A220-100
  • A220-300
  • ACJ TwoTwenty
• 2015

  Airbus Helicopters H160 Sheet pending

  Variants (3)

  • ACH160
  • H160
  • H160M
• 2018

  Airbus BelugaXL Sheet pending

  Variants (1)

  • A330-743L
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  Airbus Helicopters H140 Sheet pending

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  Airbus Zephyr Sheet pending

  Variants (7)

  • Zephyr 3
  • Zephyr 4
  • Zephyr 5
  • Zephyr 6
  • Zephyr 7
  • Zephyr S
  • Zephyr T