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ATTOL Autonomous Taxi, Take-Off & Landing: Airbus demonstrates first fully automatic vision-based take-off

Airbus has successfully performed the first fully automatic vision-based take-off using an Airbus Family test aircraft A350-1000 at Toulouse-Blagnac airport. The test crew comprising of two pilots, two flight t... Read More...

The Airbus BelugaXL has entered into service with its first operational flight

The BelugaXL has entered into service, providing Airbus with 30% extra transport capacity in order to support the on-going production ramp-up of commercial aircraft programmes. The aircraft, which is an integra... Read More...

Airbus delivers strong 2019 commercial aircraft performance with 863 aircraft deliveries

8 percent higher than in 2018 and 1,131 new aircraft orders, 768 net orders, backlog stands at 7,482 aircraft

Airbus delivered 863 commercial aircraft to 99 customers in 2019, outpacing its previous output record set in 2018 by eight percent. In the 17th yearly production increase in a row, Airbus progressed on the tra... Read More...

Airbus BelugaXL receives EASA Type Certification

The Airbus BelugaXL has received its Type Certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), paving the way for entry-into-service by early 2020. The aircraft is an integral part of Airbus’ industri... Read More...

First flight for Airbus Helicopter VSR700 prototype UAS

The prototype of Airbus Helicopters’ VSR700 unmanned aerial system has performed its first flight at a drone test centre near Aix-en-Provence in the south of France. The VSR700 performed several take-offs and l... Read More...

First Airbus A220 for Air Canada rolls out of the painting hangar

The first Canadian-made A220-300 aircraft destined to a Canadian airline

Air Canada’s first Airbus A220 was unveiled this week when it rolled out of the painting hangar at the A220 final assembly line in Mirabel. In December, Air Canada will become the first Canadian airline to t... Read More...

Airbus Helicopters delivers first NH-90 Sea Lion to the German Armed Forces (Navy)

Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first NH-90 Sea Lion naval multi-role helicopter to the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw), with a further two t... Read More...

Airbus Helicopters H145+H135 DRF Luftrettung @ Patrick Heinz

DRF Luftrettung to take off with H145 five-bladed rotors

Upgrade to H 145 Retrofit in own Service Center from the end of 2020

From the fourth quarter of 2020, DRF Luftrettung, air rescue organization, will modify its H 145 helicopters from four to five rotor blades. As soon as the approval procedure at Airbus Helicopters has been comp... Read More...

Airbus H125 Polizei Federal Ministry of the Interior Austria

Airbus H125 helicopters enter Austrian Ministry of Interior service

Austria’s Ministry of the Interior (BMI - Bundesministerium für Inneres) has formally introduced into service two Airbus H125 helicopters extensively equipped for law enforcement and rescue missions. The aircra... Read More...

Flight testing begins for the first H225Ms for Kuwait

The first H225Ms to be delivered to Kuwait later this year have started flight testing. Kuwait ordered 30 of the long-range multi-role H225Ms in August 2016. They will be operated by the Kuwait Air Force and th... Read More...

CAE opening London Gatwick training centre

CAE inaugurates innovative commercial aviation training Centre in London Gatwick

Continuing their global expansion and investment in Europe, CAE inaugurated their latest aviation training centre in London Gatwick, on the 1st of October, 2019. Equipped with state-of-the-art flight simulators... Read More...

Airbus has delivered the 1000th A320neo family aircraft to IndiGo

Airbus has delivered the 1,000th A320neo Family aircraft. The aircraft, an A321neo produced in Hamburg, Germany, was delivered to Indian airline IndiGo. IndiGo is the world’s biggest customer for the A320neo... Read More...

Airbus A400M completes paratrooper simultaneous dispatch

The Airbus A400M new generation airlifter has completed the certification flight test for the simultaneous dispatch of 80 (40+40) equipped paratroopers from both side doors on a single pass. Tests were performe... Read More...

Royal Canadian Air Force Airbus C295 FWSAR programme

[Video] Royal Canadian Air Force: here the final livery of the first Airbus C295

The first Airbus C295, purchased by the Government of Canada for the Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF) Fixed Wing Search and Rescue Aircraft Replacement (FWSAR) programme, rolled out of the paint shop showing o... Read More...

Hamburg Airbus A320 structure assembly line

Airbus inaugurates new A320 structure assembly line in Hamburg

Features new standards in digital automation

Airbus has inaugurated its highly automated fuselage structure assembly line for A320 Family aircraft in Hamburg, showcasing an evolution in Airbus’ industrial production system. With a special focus on manufac... Read More...

Air Greenland selects Airbus H225 helicopter for search and rescue

Air Greenland has ordered two Airbus H225 heavy helicopters to support its bid to win its home country’s search and rescue (SAR) contract. Under the terms of a firm contract assisted by Airbus Helicopters, t... Read More...

The new Airbus H145 five blades lands on top of the Andes

This is the first time a twin-engine helicopter has landed at this altitude

Airbus Helicopters has reached new heights: the latest version of the H145 has set its skids down on the Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Southern Hemisphere, culminating at 6,962 metres (22,840 feet). Th... Read More...

Airbus A400M helicopters air to air refuling

Airbus A400M performs first helicopter air-to-air dry contacts

The Airbus A400M new generation airlifter has successfully achieved its first helicopter air-to-air refueling contacts with an H225M operated by Airbus Helicopters. Over the course of 4 flights, operated in day... Read More...

Airbus tests its Network for the Sky on a MRTT aircraft

Airbus has successfully completed a flight demonstration of a connected airborne battlespace scenario, centred on a MRTT aircraft. The test was carried out as part of the development of Airbus’ Network for the ... Read More...

China’s first Airbus H215 helicopter delivered to SGGAC for utility missions

China’s State Grid General Aviation Company (SGGAC) has taken delivery of one heavy twin-engine Airbus H215 helicopter – a member of the mission-proven Super Puma family – becoming the launch customer for the H... Read More...

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