Commercial Aircraft History | Airbus

Early days (1967-1969)

Early days

(1967-1969)

Trouble and strife (1968-1969)

Trouble and strife

(1968-1969)

A300B

First order, first flight

(1970-1972)

Discover the A300 First flight 50th Anniversary

A300

Champagne... and drought

(1973-1977)

Technology leaders (1977-1979)

Technology leaders

(1977-1979)

A320

Fly-by-wire

(1980-1987)

Arrival of the A340

The family grows

(1988-1991)

Expansion (1991-1992)

Expansion

(1991-1992)

Record breakers (1993-2000)

Record breakers

(1993-2000)

Going global (2001-2004)

Going global

(2001-2004)

A380

The "wow" factor...

And a new era dawns (2004-2007)

Challenges and achievements (2006-2009)

Challenges & achievements

(2006-2009)

A330-200F

Preparing the future

(2009-2010)

Confirming Airbus' industry leadership (2011)

Confirming leadership

(2011)

Alabama

Higher production goals

(2012)

A350

Continuing the momentum

2013

Building on a record year (2014)

Building on a record year

(2014)

A320neo

Delivering on commitments

And preparing for the future (2015)

Boosting competitiveness with efficiency, innovation and diversity (2016)

Boosting competitiveness

With efficiency, innovation and diversity (2016)

Airbus Commercial Aircraft positioned for the future (2017)

Positioned for the future

(2017)

BelugaXL

Maintaining leadership

(2018)

first-A380-ANA-in-flight

Building on success

(2019)

Delta Air Lines received the first A220 assembled in the U.S. at Airbus’ Mobile, Alabama industrial site.

Rising to the challenge

(2020)