17 Facts About Airbus A300

Airbus A300 is a wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Airbus.

European collaborative aerospace manufacturer Airbus A300 Industrie was formally created on 18 December 1970 to develop and produce it.

The Airbus A300 is the basis of the smaller A310 and was adapted in a freighter version.

At this point, the Airbus A300 was only the second major joint aircraft programme in Europe, the first being the Anglo-French Concorde.

On 18 December 1970, Airbus A300 Industrie was formally established following an agreement between Aerospatiale of France and the antecedents to Deutsche Aerospace of Germany, each receiving a 50 per cent stake in the newly formed company.

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Airbus A300 Industrie was initially headquartered in Paris, which is where design, development, flight testing, sales, marketing, and customer support activities were centered; the headquarters was relocated to Toulouse in January 1974.

The final assembly line for the Airbus A300 was located adjacent to Toulouse Blagnac International Airport.

Kracht's solution was to have the various Airbus A300 sections brought to Toulouse by a fleet of Boeing 377-derived Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft, by which means none of the manufacturing sites were more than two hours away.

Airbus A300 is a wide-body medium-to-long range airliner; it has the distinction of being the first twin-engine wide-body aircraft in the world.

In 1977, the Airbus A300 became the first Extended Range Twin Operations -compliant aircraft, due to its high performance and safety standards.

Various variants of the Airbus A300 were built to meet customer demands, often for diverse roles such as aerial refueling tankers, freighter models, combi aircraft, military airlifter, and VIP transport.

On 23 May 1974, the first Airbus A300 to enter service performed the first commercial flight of the type, flying from Paris to London, for Air France.

Airbus A300 had viewed South-East Asia as a vital market that was ready to be opened up and believed Korean Air to be the 'key'.

The savior of the Airbus A300 was the advent of ETOPS, a revised FAA rule which allows twin-engine jets to fly long-distance routes that were previously off-limits to them.

The largest freight operator of the Airbus A300 is FedEx Express, which has 65 Airbus A300 aircraft in service as of May 2022.

The Airbus A300 has enjoyed renewed interest in the secondhand market for conversion to freighters; large numbers were being converted during the late 1990s.

The basic fuselage of the Airbus A300 was later stretched, shortened, or modified into derivatives .