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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 ...
Sir Iain Gilmour Gray CBE FRSE FREng (born 22 March 1957) is a British engineer and academic, working as Professor and Director of Aerospace at Cranfield University since 2015.
Airbus Group, Inc. (formerly EADS North America) represents the North American activities of European [4] multinational aerospace company Airbus. Headquartered in Herndon , Virginia , this American arm of the company participates in U.S. Department of Defense programs, in some cases as a prime contractor. [ 5 ]
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An Airbus A380, the wings and engines of which are produced in the UK. 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' first aircraft, the A300, had been received with little initial demand, [32] but orders for the airliner had picked up in the late 1970s. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] By 1979, the consortium had 256 orders for A300, [ 35 ] and Airbus had launched its second airliner, the A310 , less than 12 months prior to BAe formally joining the consortium. [ 31 ]
ADS Group Limited, informally known as ADS, is the trade organisation representing the aerospace, defence, security and space industries in the United Kingdom.It has more than 1,000 member companies across its sectors, including some of the UK's largest manufacturers, like Airbus, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Meggitt PLC and GKN.