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Airbus Operations S.A.S.

Airbus SAS
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
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.


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