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Airbus

Airbus SAS is adivision of the multinational Airbus Group SE that manufactures civil aircraft.It is based in Blagnac, France, a suburb of Toulouse, with production andmanufacturing facilities mainly in France, Germany, Spain, China, UnitedKingdom and the United States. The company employs more than 70,000 people. Airbusbegan as a consortium of aerospace manufacturers, Airbus Industrie.Consolidation of European defense and aerospace companies in 1999 and 2000allowed the establishment of a simplified joint-stock company in 2001, owned bythe European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) (80%) and BAE Systems(20%). After a protracted sales process BAE sold its shareholding to EADS on 13October 2006. Airbus has sixteen key sites in four countries: France, Germany,Spain and the United Kingdom. Final assembly production is based at Toulouse,France; Hamburg, Germany; Seville, Spain, Tianjin, China, and Mobile, UnitedStates. Airbus has subsidiaries in the United States, Japan and India. Thecompany produces and markets the first commercially viable digital fly-by-wireairliner, the Airbus A320 and the world's largest passenger airliner, the A380.The 10,000thaircraft, an A350, was delivered to Singapore Airlines on 14October 2016; the global Airbus fleet having performed more than 110 millionflights over 215 billion kilometers, carrying 12 billion passengers.

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