The Airbus A300 is Airbus' first production aircraft and the world's first twin-engine, double-aisle (wide-body) airliner. It was developed by Airbus Industrie GIE, now merged into Airbus SE, and manufactured from 1971 to 2007.

On 28 October 1972, the world’s first twin engined widebody commercial aircraft, the A300B1 development aircraft, MSN 1, bearing the registration F-WUAB, performed its maiden flight in Toulouse.

On Oct. 28, 1972, the first A300B1 test aircraft took off on its first flight, marking the start of an industrial, political and ultimately economic success story that is called Airbus and...

2019年8月18日 · With the role of Airbus as a European technology driver very clear, the A300B became the first commercial aircraft to use composites, in the leading and trailing edges of the vertical stabiliser and the radome.

The Airbus A300B1 is a twin-engine, wide-body, short-range carrier manufactured by Airbus, introduced in the 1970s. It was powered by two General Electric CF6-50A turbofan engines and could accommodate 300 to 323 passengers.

2022年10月29日 · Just a month after its roll-out, the A300B1 test aircraft made its maiden flight on 28 October 1972. The date, which has just turned 50, has a much greater significance as it marked the beginning of a revolution in air transport.

It was a twinjet airliner with a single-deck fuselage featuring a circular cross-section. It had a 6.1-meter (20-foot) diameter, matching the width of the emerging Boeing 747 jumbo jet, to allow carriage of the same containers as the 747.