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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 ...
In 2008, a final basement storeroom within the Airbus Business Suite was converted into the de Havilland Room. [ 20 ] On 31 March 2009 the Royal Aeronautical Society completed the purchase of the freehold of No. 4 Hamilton Place from the Crown Estate , thereby safeguarding its headquarters for future generations of aeronautical engineers.
Airbus in 2006 achieved its second best year ever in its entire 35-year history in terms of the number of orders it received, 824, second only to the previous year. [143] Airbus plans to increase production of A320 airliners to reach 40 per month by 2012, at a time when Boeing is increasing monthly 737 production from 31.5 to 35 per month. [144]
Airbus Group Inc. is a prime contractor to the U.S. Army on the service's new UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopter. The Lakota is based on the commercial EC145. Under terms of a contract awarded in June 2006, Airbus Group Inc. has already delivered more than 200 out of a planned 351 aircraft. [citation needed]
Airbus directly employs around 13,000 people at its UK division Airbus UK, with estimates that it supports another 140,000 jobs in the wider UK economy. [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]
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II made its show debut in 2016, two years later than planned, with UK's first F-35B and two US Marine Corps examples. In 2018, the UK Ministry of Defence unveiled a full-scale Tempest model for its Future Combat Air strategy , as the Mitsubishi MRJ regional jet made its first flying display.
Airbus UK's first opponents in the League of Wales at The Airfield were Total Network Solutions. [7] In 2012, Airbus UK Broughton sold the naming rights of The Airfield to the Hollingsworth Group and renamed The Airfield. [1] Due to regular waterlogging of the pitch, The Airfield's grass surface was replaced with a 3G synthetic pitch in 2014.
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