Wide body twin engine airliner.
Long, slender wings are approximately 13% composite materials including outer flaps, flap track fairings, ailerons, spoilers, fixed surface panels and winglets; aluminium wing box and rib edges; aluminium alloy fuselage; and steel or titanium slat supports. Choice of 3 engines - General Electric CF6, Pratt & Whitney PW4000, or Rolls-Royce Trent 700, suspended on pylons under wings. Exclusive use of Trent 7000 on A330neo improves fuel efficiency, as well as an extended, 3D-optimised wing with composite wingtip Sharklets, titanium pylons and composite nacelles.
Fly-by-wire digital control system features three primary and two secondary flight control systems, and a flight envelope limit protection system. Flight controls are hydraulically activated and electronically controlled with mechanical back up for the rudder and Trimmable Horizontal Stabilizer.
Two crew in glass cockpit with side stick controls and rudder pedals, face six main displays of a duplicated set of Electronic Flight Instrument Systems (EFIS) including the Electronic Centralised Aircraft Monitor (ECAM), primary flight and navigation displays.
Lift type | Fixed wing | Search for other aircraft programs with these properties on the Aircraft Programs directory page. |
Construction type | Factory-built | |
Control type | Piloted | |
Engine type | Turbofan | |
Application | Passenger large | |
Final assembly | Toulouse (Blagnac) |
Variant | Launch/First flight | Production end | |
Airbus A330-300 | 1987 / 1992 | Original model typically seating 300 passengers, including most recent A330 Regional, typically 400 passengers. | |
Airbus A330-200 | 1995 / 1997 | Shorter variant with extended range, seating 246 passengers. Includes A330-200F freighter and ACJ330 Prestige business jet. | |
Airbus A330 MRTT | 2007 / 2010 | Tanker transport military variant. Known as KC-30A in Australia, and Voyager KC2 and KC3 in the U.K. | |
Airbus A330-743L Beluga XL | 2014 / 2018 | Inflated fuselage variant for transporting A350 sub-assemblies between plants. | |
Airbus A330-800/900 | 2014 / 2017 | Two models in the latest A330neo range. |
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