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Airbus A300/A310
Airbus · Widebody / Heavy / Commercial Aviation · France · Cold War (1970–1991)
The Airbus A300 is Airbus' first production aircraft and the world's first twin-engine, wide-body airliner. It was developed by Airbus Industrie GIE, now merged into Airbus, and manufactured from 1971 to 2007.
Specifications
- Category
- Fixed Wing
- Sub-Category
- Commercial
- Domain
- Civil
- Era
- Cold War (1970–1991)
- Country
- France
- Manufacturer
- Airbus
- Operator
- Airlines worldwide
- Primary Role
- Widebody / Heavy / Commercial Aviation
- Status
- Retired
- Service Entry
- 1974
- Produced
- 816
- Propulsion
- Electric
- Engine
- 2x General Electric CF6-80C2A5 or P&W JT9D-59A turbofans
- Thrust / Power
- 61,500 lbf each
- Launch
- Ground
- Length (ft)
- 177.2
- Wingspan (ft)
- 147.1
- Empty Weight (lb)
- 187393
- MTOW (lb)
- 363760
- Payload (lb)
- 112000
- Endurance (hr)
- 9
- Service Ceiling (ft)
- 40000
- Range (mi)
- 5150
- Max Speed (mph)
- 561
- Max Speed (Mach)
- 0.82