With more efficient turbofans and improvements including sharklets, it offers up to 15% better fuel economy.Įarlier A320s are now called A320ceo ( current engine option).Īmerican Airlines is the largest A320 operator with 469 aircraft in its fleet. In December 2010, Airbus announced the re-engined A320neo ( new engine option), which entered service with Lufthansa in January 2016. The Airbus Corporate Jets are business jet versions.
The A320 is 37.6 m (123 ft) long and can accommodate 150 to 186 passengers. The 31.4 m (103 ft) long A318 typically accommodates 107 to 132 passengers. The family pioneered the use of digital fly-by-wire and side-stick flight controls in airliners. The twinjet has a six-abreast economy cross-section and came with either CFM56 or IAE V2500 turbofan engines, except the CFM56/ PW6000 powered A318. The first member of the family was followed by the longer A321 (first delivered in January 1994), the shorter A319 (April 1996), and the even shorter A318 (July 2003).įinal assembly takes place in Toulouse in France Hamburg in Germany Tianjin in China since 2009 and Mobile, Alabama in the United States since April 2016. The A320 was launched in March 1984, first flew on 22 February 1987, and was introduced in April 1988 by Air France.
Airbus a320 cockpit photos series#
The Airbus A320 family is a series of narrow-body airliners developed and produced by Airbus.
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