Airbus

Airbus
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Airbus SAS
Airbus logo
Type Subsidiary
Industry Aerospace
Founded 1970 (Airbus Industrie)
2001 (Airbus SAS)
Headquarters Blagnac, France
Key people Thomas Enders, CEO
Harald Wilhelm, CFO
John Leahy, Chief Commercial Officer
Fabrice Brégier, COO
Products Commercial airliners (list)
Revenue ▲ €27.45 billion (FY 2008)[1]
Net income ▲ €1.597 billion (FY 2008)
Employees 52,000[2]
Parent EADS
Subsidiaries Airbus Military
Website www.airbus.com

Airbus SAS (English pronunciation: /ˈɛərbʌs/, French: [ɛʁbys] ( listen), German: [ˈɛːɐbʊs]) is an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of EADS, a European aerospace company. Based in Blagnac, France, near Toulouse,[3][4] and with significant activity across Europe, the company produces around half of the world's jet airliners.

Airbus began as a consortium of aerospace manufacturers. Consolidation of European defence and aerospace companies around the turn of the 21st 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.[5]

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).[6] Airbus has subsidiaries in the United States, Japan, China and India.

The company is known for producing and marketing the first commercially viable fly-by-wire airliner[7][8] and the world's largest airliner, the A380.





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