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F-WUAB when being constructed in 1972. The aircraft was assembled at Airbus's Aérospatiale facility based in Toulouse, Occitania, France as the first Airbus A300 aircraft ever built, the prototype aircraft took its first flight on October 28th, 1972.
The Airbus A300 is a wide-body medium-to-long range airliner; it has the distinction of being the first twin-engine wide-body aircraft in the world. [8] [9]: 34 [12]: 57, 60 [19] In 1977, the A300 became the first Extended Range Twin Operations (ETOPS)-compliant aircraft, due to its high performance and safety standards.
The following is a list of orders, deliveries and backlog for the Airbus A330 by model as of 31 December 2024: Ord — number of aircraft ordered from Airbus by the specified customer; Del — number of aircraft delivered by Airbus to the specified customer; Bl — number of aircraft still to be delivered to the specified customer
It was the launch of the A320 in 1987 that guaranteed the status of Airbus as a major player in the aircraft market [26] – the aircraft had over 400 orders before it first flew, compared to 15 for the A300 in 1972. Airbus A320, the first model in the A318, A319, A320 and A321 family, introduced in 1988
The airline took delivery of its first Airbus A300 in 1997, and its first Airbus A320 in February 1999. In 2001, Qatar Airways ordered two Airbus A380 aircraft, becoming the ninth operator of the type. The first A380 was delivered in 2014. The airline also added Airbus A321s, Airbus A330s, and Airbus A340s from 2004 to 2006.
Meanwhile, the first time that ETOPS-330 approval was given to a four-engine aircraft was in February 2015, to the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental. [15] It is the only ETOPS-compliant aircraft allowed to run non-stop overflights over Antarctica with proper alternates, alongside the Airbus A340 and A380. [citation needed]
After months of waiting, Emirates unveiled its first of 65 Airbus A350-900 aircraft on November 27. ... Emirates has 205 of Boeing's new aircraft on order, holding 40% of the world's 503 total ...
Flag of the ICAO. An aircraft type designator is a two-, three- or four-character alphanumeric code designating every aircraft type (and some sub-types) that may appear in flight planning.