Airbus - A Global company

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Airbus is one of the leading aircraft manufactures in the world. Based in Toulouse France , airbus produces roughly half of the worlds planes. Airbus has many sites all around Europe and the world. It employs 57000 people at sites in the UK , Spain , France and Germany . Parts are made at these sites and taken to final production sites in Toulouse France , hamburg (Germany) and Seville (Spain). Airbuses wide range of plane models include the a300 , A310 , A319 , A320 , 321 ,A330 , A340 . Airbuses newest plane the Airbus a380 is the largest plane in the world - in this blog we will explore how airbus built parts of this plane all over Europe and took these parts all together to make this mighty flying machine.

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The airbus a380 is the biggest passenger airliner in the world.it made its maiden flight on 27 April. At full capacity it can seat 853 peolpe. It has a range of 15,200 Km this is enough to fly from boston to hong kong at mach 0.85 or at 560mph. In this post we will discover how the a380 was built and where different parts came from.

TOULOUSE , France - this is the site of the final assembly for the A380 . This is airbus HQ , here testing of the a380 will tsake place. Toulouse also specialise in the making of engine pylons for all airbus families.

Broughton - UK - this site specialises in making the wings forairbus families. the a 380 wings will also be semi produced at this site. The first wing delivery of the a380 was on 5 April 2004. The wing is 45 metres long and made the journey to toulouse on a 96 wheel trasportation jig.

Nantes - France - this site makes and assembles the centre wing boxes for all Airbus aircraft as well as keel beams, ailerons, inlet cowls and landing gear doors.

Saint Nazaire - France - this site produces the nose and centre fusealage for all airbus models , it also makes fuselage shells, sheet metal parts, pipes and ducts. Once produced these parts are transported to toulouse by sea , canal and road.

Puerto Real - Spain - this facility maunfacteures and assembles parts of the airbus a380 rudder system. All these parts are then transported to toulouse for final assembly.

Buxtehude - Germany - Buxetehude is responsible for the the Cabin Intercommunication Data System, the Passenger Service Unit Channel, the complete Cabin Interior Lighting Package (about 1000 illumination components per ship set) and for the control computers of the water/waste system.

Nordenham – Germany - For the A380, the plant is producing fuselage shells for the forward and aft, or rear, fuselage sections of the aircraft, as well as the fuselage shell of the upper deck central section.

Stade – Germany – this site produces vertical tail plane, pressure bulkhead and flaps

Hamburg – Germany – produces front and rear fuselage sections. After being finally produced in Toulouse the a380 is then flown to hamburg for cabin furnishing and painting.

Bremen – Germany -produces high lift systems, as well as flaps, tracks/fairings and sheet metal parts.

Laupheim – Germany - low pressure air ducting system for the forward and aft fuselage sections, cabin lining (sidewall, ceiling, hatrack, door-doorframe ) and crew rest compartments.