Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility
Georgia (U.S.)-based Delta Air Lines has placed an incremental order for 30 firm A321ceo aircraft. This order follows three previous Delta orders for the Current Engine Option version of the largest Airbus A320 Family member. The airline took delivery of its first A321 in March of last year. Delta now […]
The Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility in Mobile, Alabama, has received the major component assemblies for the first A320 that will be produced in the U.S. The 27 aircraft delivered from the facility thus far have been A321s. This marks another important milestone for the manufacturing facility, which began production in […]
More than 20 Team Mobile production and delivery team members celebrated the delivery of Airbus milestone serial number MSN 7500, which is our 26th U.S.-produced aircraft, today with a visiting team of American Airlines employees from their Charlotte, Dallas and Tulsa stations. Our teams spent time together discussing their roles […]
Photo by T. Habelmann The Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility has reached another milestone: the delivery of its 25th aircraft since production began. Nearly a year after its first delivery, the team at Airbus’ A320 Family production facility in Mobile, Alabama, delivered an A321 to Delta Air Lines. This is the […]
The first Airbus A319neo performed its maiden flight today, The smallest member of the A320neo Family, powered by CFM International LEAP-1A engines took off from Hamburg and landed in Toulouse after a 5 hour flight. It was piloted by Experimental test pilots Michel Gagneux and Eckard Hausser. They were assisted […]
There are those who talk about the problems in the world, and then there are those who do something about them. Airbus employees Krystie Dunn and Jane Shelton have decided to do their part in overcoming the problem represented by the relatively small number of women working in the aviation […]
We were honored to recognize our peer award winners in front of the whole team last week at the all-employee meeting.
Another order announced last week from one of our great U.S.-based customers. No decision on where they’ll be produced yet, but as always—any A320 Family order anywhere in the world is good for us. A healthy backlog is a bright future.
Barry Eccleston, the CEO of Airbus North America, offered his congratulations to the Mobile team at the First Flight post-flight ceremony.
Airbus has donated $10,675 to the Feeding the Gulf Coast Backpack Program, giving 85 more children in Mobile County access to meals when they are not in school. The Backpack Program is a privately funded program reaching 1,200 children in south Alabama. It operates with school partners to connect children […]
