In 1974, theAirbus A300 entered service with Air France. This was the jet that would propel the new company, Airbus, which had been formed from a series of mergers, into becoming the largest airplane ...

The first Airbus A300 transformed and accelerated air travel worldwide. Its creation was a challenging feat that required cooperation across continents to come to fruition. During the 1960s, the U.S.

The Airbus A300 is often remembered as the aircraft that launched Airbus into what it is today, but its deeper significance lies in how radically it challenged conventional aircraft design. When it ...

This year, around 4 billion plane passengers will take to the sky – and most of them will travel in an Airbus or a Boeing. These two Goliaths have dominated aerospace manufacturing for half a century, ...

FedEx is the largest remaining operator of Airbus A300s. Credit: Joepriesaviation.net Tracking in-service aircraft and fleet types is usually not difficult using databases such as Aviation Week’s ...

The American Airlines A300-600R that plunged into a New York neighborhood yesterday was the first Airbus jetliner to crash in the United States. It was an updated version of the very first plane that ...

UPS received the first of 52 Airbus A300-600s operated by the international air cargo carrier scheduled to receive advanced new communications, navigation, and surveillance systems with the Honeywell ...

B/E Aerospace will go head-to-head with EADS’ freighter conversion unit Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW) in the Airbus A300-600 passenger-to-freighter (PTF) market when it begins conversions for China ...

US-based B/E Aerospace has secured a supplemental type certificate (STC) from the US FAA allowing it to convert Airbus A300-600 passenger aircraft to freighters. B/E says in a statement that the STC ...

A decade after the arrival of the A300, the Airbus family expanded with the A310 taking to the air in 1982 and the A300-600 in 1983. The A310 was a shorter, longer-ranger aircraft than the 300, ...