About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Aerospace manufacturer, EADS, Arianespace, Astrium Satellites, Airbus, Competition between Airbus and Boeing, Triumph Group, TTTech, Hellenic Aerospace Industry, Herley Industries, Turkish Aerospace Industries, TransDigm Group, Frasca International, United Space Alliance, MBDA, Nexcelle, Heroux-Devtek, Oxsensis, Turkish Airlines Maintenance Center, De Havilland Aviation, Woodlawn Manufacturing, IHI Corporation, The Spaceship Company, TAP Maintenance & Engineering, AXIS Flight Training Systems, Jamtlands Flyg, TIMCO, Equatorial Sistemas, LIDAX, Bromma Air Maintenance, European Satellite Navigation Industries, RUAG Space, HEICO, Barfield, Inc., Landmark Aviation, Fokker Technologies, EuroJet Turbo GmbH, Sensis Corporation, EADS Innovation Works, Eurosam, APSYS, Burl's Aircraft, Earthjet, NHIndustries, Mayflower Aerospace, Computer Resources International, GTDAR, Apex Aviation. Excerpt: Airbus SAS (English pronunciation: , French: , German: , Spanish: ) is an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of EADS, a European aerospace company. Based in Blagnac, France, near Toulouse, and with significant activity across Europe, the company produces around half of the world's jet airliners. 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 joint-stock company in 2001, owned by EADS (80%) and BAE Systems (20%). After a protracted sales process BAE sold its shareholding to EADS on 13 October 2006. Airbus employs around 52,000 people at sixteen sites in four European Union countries: Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Spain. Final assembly production is at Toulouse (France), Hamburg (Germany), Seville (Spain) and, since 2009, Tianjin (People's Republic of China). Airbus has subsidiaries in t...
