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The Toulouse, France-based Airbus SAS, formerly Airbus Industrie, is the manufacturer of military and civilian aircraft originally designed to carry more than 100 passengers on short-run flights. By the mid-1990s it was building aircraft capable of carrying more than 300 passengers on global flights. Since 1974, it has produced 10... more »
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Airbus SAS ( in English, in French, and in German) is an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of EADS, a European aerospace company. Based in Toulouse, France, and with significant activity across Europe, the company produces around half of the worlds jet airliners.
Airbus began as a consortium of aerospace manufacturers. Consolidation of European defence and aerospace companies around the turn of the century allowed the establishment of a simplified joint stock company in 2001, owned by EADS (80%) and BAE Systems (20%). After a protracted sales process BAE sold its shareholding to EADS on 13 October 2006.
Airbus employs around 57,000 people at sixteen sites in four European Union countries: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Spain. Final assembly production is at Toulouse (France), Hamburg (Germany), Seville (Spain) and, since 2009, Tianjin (China). Airbus has subsidiaries in the United States, Japan and China.
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History
Origins
Airbus Industrie began as a consortium of European aviation firms to compete with American companies such as Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, and Lockheed."USAirbushisite">
While many European aircraft were innovative, even the most successful had small production runs."airlinerworldspec"> In 1991, Jean Pierson, then CEO and Managing Director of Airbus Industrie, described a number of factors which explained the dominant position of American aircraft manufacturers: the land mass of the United States made air transport the favoured mode of read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus
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