Airbus
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| Type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | 1970 (as Airbus Industrie) 2001 (Airbus as SAS) |
| Headquarters | Blagnac, France |
| Key people | Thomas Enders (Chief Executive Officer) Fabrice Brégier (Chief Operating Officer) |
| Products | Commercial airliners (list) |
| Revenue | ▲ €29.97 billion (FY 2010)[1] |
| Net income | ▲ €1.597 billion (FY 2008) |
| Employees | 54,000[2] |
| Parent | EADS |
| Subsidiaries | Airbus Military |
| Website | www.airbus.com |
Airbus SAS (how to say: /ˈɛərbʌs/, French: [ɛʁbys] (
listen)) is an aircraft manufacturer. It is a subsidiary of EADS, which is a European aerospace company. Airbus has its main headquarters in Blagnac, France. Blagnac is a suburb of Toulouse.[3][4] It makes many aircraft all across Europe. Airbus now manufactures more than half of the world's jet airliners.
Around 52,000 people work for Airbus. These people are based at sixteen places in four European Union countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain. The last part of an aircraft's production happens at Toulouse (France), Hamburg (Germany), Seville (Spain) and, since 2009, Tianjin (People's Republic of China).[5] Airbus has subsidiaries in the United States, Japan, China and India.
The company made and sells the first fly-by-wire airliner, the Airbus A320.[6][7] It also makes and sells the world's largest airliner, the A380.
[change] Products
- Airbus A300
- Airbus A310
- Airbus A320 - including A318, A319 and A321
- Airbus A330
- Airbus A340
- Airbus A350
- Airbus A380
[change] References
- ↑ "EADS Annual Review 2010" (PDF). EADS. 2010. http://www.eads.com/dms/eads/int/en/investor-relations/documents/2011/Events-Reports/AR_RegDoc_2010/2may_EADS_AR_ok/EADS%20Annual%20Review%202010.%20Flight%20into%20the%20Future.pdf. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
- ↑ "Airbus – Company – People & Culture". Airbus. http://www.airbus.com/company/people-culture/. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
- ↑ "Airbus A380 lands after making aviation history." USA Today. 27 April 2005. Updated 28 April 2005. Retrieved on 12 February 2010.
- ↑ "Contacts." Airbus. Retrieved on 28 November 2011. "Airbus Headquarters in Toulouse 1, Rond Point Maurice Bellonte 31707 Blagnac Cedex France"
- ↑ "First Airbus final assembly line outside Europe inaugurated in Tianjin, China". Airbus. 28 September 2008. http://www.airbus.com/presscentre/pressreleases/press-release-detail/detail/first-airbus-final-assembly-line-outside-europe-inaugurated-in-tianjin-china/.
- ↑ Beatson, Jim (2 April 1989). "Air Safety: Is America Ready to `Fly by Wire'?". Washington Post. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73868992.html?dids=73868992:73868992&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+02%2C+1989&author=Jim+Beatson&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=AIR+SAFETY%3A+Is+America+Ready+to+%60Fly+by+Wire'%3F&pqatl=google.
- ↑ "History – Imaginative advances". Airbus. Archived from the original on 26 March 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20100326091257/http://www.airbus.com/en/corporate/people/company-evolution/fly-by-wire/. Retrieved 30 September 2009.
