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The advantages of building aircraft structures with composites, compared to metal, include light weight, high specific strength, superior fatigue properties, damage tolerance and the absence of corrosion.

Expanded empennage component production for A220 family positions FACC as an important long-term technology partner to Airbus, supports the company’s growth strategy for the future.

Full-year 2021 reflected 771 gross commercial aircraft orders and 611 delivered, with revenue totaling €52.1 billion. Despite the pandemic, 2021 indicated Airbus’ strong operational performance.

Airbus A400M aircraft prompts new spar design and new manufacturing system designed to make it.

Filton, Bristol location will cover full product capabilities from components up to whole system and cryogenic testing, complementing Airbus’ existing ZEDC facilities for the ZEROe’s 2035 entry-into-service date.

The order will replace Rega’s current fleet of AW109SP helicopters used for critical air rescue services in its mountain bases, adds to the company’s anticipated 2026 all-Airbus fleet.

Airbus subsidiary CTC uses new technology to measure energy use in machine components and processes to optimize equipment, production lines and guide decisions for future composites.

Airbus reports resilience and recovery, announcing 611 commercial aircraft delivered over the course of 2021, and a doubled gross order intake from 2020 across all programs and market segments.

In March 2023, the Tianjin-based final assembly facility commissioned a composites-intensive A321neo for Juneyao Air.

The Airbus A380 testbed will fly in 2026 with four 100-kilogram liquid hydrogen tanks — metal and composites are being developed via Airbus ZEROe Development Centres — with multiple other programs to develop composite H₂ tanks for civil aviation that were begun in 2021.

A surge in defense spending, partnerships in hydrogen propulsion and new combat aircraft agreements, many backed by composites industry leaders, culminated the 55th Paris Air Show.