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The Airbus A320 is a low-wing airliner with twin turbofans and a conventional tail. The Airbus A320 family are narrow-body (single-aisle) aircraft with a retractable tricycle landing gear and powered by two wing pylon-mounted turbofan engines. After the oil price rises of the 1970s, Airbus needed to minimise the trip fuel costs of the A320.
On 29 March 2015, Air Canada Flight 624, an Airbus A320-211 registered as C-FTJP, touched down short of the runway while landing at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in low visibility and heavy snow, colliding with a power pole and an antenna array, cutting power to the airport and causing the landing gear to separate from the aircraft ...
The Airbus A320neo family is an incremental development of the A320 family of narrow-body airliners produced by Airbus.The A320neo family (neo being Greek for "new", as well as an acronym for "new engine option") is based on the enhanced variant of the previous generation A319, A320, and A321, which was then retrospectively renamed the A320ceo family (ceo being an acronym for "current engine ...
On the Airbus A320, the yellow system may power the green system, but because it is also bi-directional, if the starboard engine fails, the green system can help to power the yellow system by dumping excess power into it via the same mechanism. This is also known as a 'reversible' PTU.
The Airbus A320 family was the first airliner to feature a full glass cockpit and digital fly-by-wire flight control system. The only analogue instruments were the radio magnetic indicator, brake pressure indicator, standby altimeter and artificial horizon, the latter two being replaced by a digital integrated standby instrument system in later production models.
The Airbus A321 is a member of the Airbus A320 family of short to medium range, narrow-body, commercial passenger twin engine jet airliners; [b] it carries 185 to 236 passengers. It has a stretched fuselage which was the first derivative of the baseline A320 and entered service in 1994, about six years after the original A320.
List of orders, deliveries and operators of the Airbus A320 family, as of 31 December 2024: Ord — number of aircraft ordered from Airbus; Del — number of aircraft delivered by Airbus; Bl — number of aircraft still to be delivered to the specified customer
The following is a list of airlines operating Airbus A320 family aircraft. [1] [2] Current operators. Airline A318 A319ceo A319neo A320ceo A320neo A321ceo A321neo