Airbus

Airbus SAS

Entry of Saint-Martin site, Blagnac
Type	Operating Division
Industry	Aerospace
Founded	18 December 1970 (as Airbus Industrie) 2001 (as Airbus SAS)
Founder	Roger Béteille, Felix Kracht, Henri Ziegler, Franz Josef Strauss
Headquarters	Blagnac, France
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Fabrice Brégier (President and Chief Executive Officer) Tom Williams (Chief Operating Officer)
Products	Commercial airliners (list)
Number of employees	72,816 (2015)
Parent	Airbus Group
Subsidiaries	Airbus Corporate Jets Airbus Operations S.A.S. Airbus ProSky Stelia Aerospace
Website	www.airbus.com

Airbus SAS (/ˈɛərbʌs/, French: [ɛʁbys], German: [ˈɛːɐbʊs], Spanish: [ˈeirβus]) is a division of the multinational Airbus Group SE that manufactures civil aircraft. It is based in Blagnac, France, a suburb of Toulouse, with production and manufacturing facilities mainly in France, Germany, Spain, China, United Kingdom and the United States. The company employs 72,816 people.

Airbus began as a consortium of aerospace manufacturers, Airbus Industrie. Consolidation of European defence and aerospace companies in 1999 and 2000 allowed the establishment of a simplified in 2001, owned by the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) (80%) and BAE Systems (20%). After a protracted sales process BAE sold its shareholding to EADS on 13 October 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, United States. Airbus has subsidiaries in the United States, Japan and India.