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Airbus UK (formerly EADS UK) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Airbus, based in the United Kingdom, which produces wings for Airbus aircraft.When Airbus (at the time known as EADS) was incorporated as a joint-stock company in 2001, BAE Systems transferred the British facilities of the transnational Airbus Industrie GIE consortium formed in 1970 to the new corporation in exchange of a 20% stake ...
Airbus has built new offices and refurbished one of the original, listed 'Aircraft Works' buildings, Pegasus House, as well as restoring the historic Filton House. Planning permission was granted for Airbus to build a new Engine Development Centre, and in 2016 for a new Wing Building and Wing Development Centre.
During October 2022, wind tunnel testing of a scale model of the AJT was performed by Airbus UK at Filton. [19] Two months later, Aeralis was awarded a £9 million (US$11 million) contract from the MOD to provide digital engineering services.
Aerospace companies in Filton include BAE Systems, Airbus, GKN, Rolls-Royce and MBDA, all located around the former Filton Aerodrome. The Concorde supersonic airliner was built here in the late 1960s and 1970s; on 26 November 2003 Concorde 216 (G-BOAF) [ 4 ] made the final flight of a Concorde, returning to Filton to be kept there permanently ...
[87] [88] The traditional UK workshare in Airbus aircraft is around 20%. [89] Airbus has major sites at Filton in the city of Bristol and at Broughton in north Wales. [87] Filton is the main research and development and support centre for all Airbus wings, fuel systems and landing gear integration. [90]
Side view of the renovated "Belfast" hangar (October 2017) Aerospace Bristol is an aerospace museum at Filton, to the north of Bristol, England.The project is run by the Bristol Aero Collection Trust and houses a varied collection of exhibits, including Concorde Alpha Foxtrot, the final Concorde to be built and the last to fly.
Until 2010, the aircraft was open for public viewing at the Airbus facility; since 2017 it has been the main exhibit at Filton's Aerospace Bristol museum. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] In addition, a nose cone formerly attached to G-BOAF is currently on display in the Concorde Room, part of the BA first class airport lounge at Heathrow Terminal 5 , having ...
BAE Systems inherited British Aerospace's share of Airbus Industrie, which consisted of two factories at Broughton and Filton. These facilities manufactured wings for the Airbus family of aircraft. In 2001 Airbus was incorporated as Airbus SAS, a joint stock company.