Hamburg, the headquarters of Airbus in Germany, employs some 15,000 people and plays a decisive role in the development and engineering of all Airbus aircraft. Final assembly takes place here for the A320 Family’s four members: the A318, A319, A320 and A321.
Hamburg is the site where A320 Family aircraft and the A380 are fitted with their cabin interiors, and painted for final delivery. Hamburg also is home to Airbus’ A380 major component assembly hall, which houses the structural assembly and the fitting-with equipment of the forward and complete rear fuselage sections for this new-generation aircraft. In addition, final acceptance and delivery of A380s for customers in Europe and the Middle East takes place in Hamburg.
This Airbus facility’s years of manufacturing experience enhance fuselage structural assembly and systems installation. It produces complete fuselage sections for the A380, which are shipped to France on a specially-built roll-on, roll-off ferry. Other key activities in Hamburg include a large spares centre – which holds some 120,000 proprietary parts for customers from around the world, and A320 Family maintenance training facilities which accommodate hundreds of airline trainees every year.
Hamburg also plays a key role in the A330 and A350 XWB programmes, for which it manufactures and equips the forward and rear fuselage sections. In the engineering domain, Airbus’ key competences in Hamburg focus on the development of fuselage structures and the design of aircraft cabins.