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Airbus A320

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Family of single aisle medium-range twin-jet airliners. Final assembly in Hamburg (originally Toulouse), and in China from 2008, and Mobile, Alabama from 2017. Latest A320neo 'new engine option' variants are powered by CFM or Pratt & Whitney engines. Major sub-assemblies made in France - front fuselage, centre wing box, engine pylons and some doors, Germany - remaining fuselage, tailcone, flaps, fin and rudder, UK - wings, and several other countries.

First conventional airliner to feature composite major structures (carbon fibre reinforced plastic tailplane and rudder), fly-by-wire and side-stick controller, centralised maintenance system. Aluminium alloy construction, with two-spar multi-rib wing box and Sharklet wingtips. Belly fairing skins from AFRP, fin leading edge from GFRP and carbon fibre reinforced plastic extensively: flaps, spoilers, ailerons, elevators and undercarriage doors.

Crew of two have four EFIS displays and two aircraft monitoring displays.

The AlbatrossOne is a small-scale remote controlled demonstrator based on the A321, with freely flapping wingtips to reduce drag and turbulence.

Photo: Airbus / Herve Gousse - Master Films

Lift type

Fixed wing

Assembly

Factory-built

Control

Piloted

Engine type

Turbofan

Application

Business, Cargo, Passenger medium

Final assembly

Tianjin (Binhai) · Hamburg (Finkenwerder) · Mobile International ·

Design & construction

The aircraft as engineered: what it is built from, the systems it flies with, and its configuration — each box a theme.

Airframe & structure

Primary structure

Aluminium

Wing

Aluminium

Landing gear

Retractable tricycle

Ice protection

Bleed air

Pressurisation

Pressurised

Systems & avionics

Flight controls

Full FBW digital

Autopilot

3-axis + autoland

Avionics architecture

Integrated glass suite

Environmental control

Engine-bleed air-cycle

Configuration & certification

Wing position

Low

Planform

Swept

Tail

Conventional

continued

Certification

Part 25

Minimum crew

Notable technologies — each tag names a technology on our research record for this aircraft, with its fitting status: Primary, Standard, Option or Planned.

Winglets / sharklets Standard

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Type variants

Variant	Launch / first flight	Production end	Notes
Airbus A320	1984 / 1987		Production: 1 (2018) GAMA: Airbus Corporate Jets ACJ320. Includes A320-100 (out of service) and -200 (now A320ceo). Maximum capacity up to 186 seats.
Airbus A321	1989 / 1993		Production: 1 (2013) GAMA: Airbus Corporate ACJ321. Stretched variant of A320, as A321-100 and -200 (now A321ceo), and ACJ321 Prestige business jet. Long-range (A321LR) and extra long-range versions (A321XLR).
Airbus A319	1993 / 1995		Production: 1 (2025) GAMA: Airbus Corporate Jets ACJ319neo. Short fuselage variant of the A320, includes the ACJ319. Original A319-100 now branded A319ceo (current engine option).
Airbus A318	1999 / 2002	2015	Production: 607 (2025) GAMA: Airbus A320Family. Short body variant of the A319, including the ACJ318 Elite business jet. Maximum capacity 136, typically 117 passengers. Laser welded lower fuselage.
Airbus A320neo	2010 / 2014		Production: 1 (2026) GAMA: Airbus Corporate Jets ACJ320neo. Upgraded engine variant. Available as ACJ320neo.
Airbus A321neo	2015 / 2016		Production: 2 (2021) ACJ321neo. Upgraded engine variant, includes ACJ321neo.
Airbus A319neo	2017 / 2019		Production: 2 (2024) ACJ319neo. Upgraded engine variant, includes ACJ319neo.

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