Airbus
![Airbus A300, the first aircraft launched by Airbus](/Images/godic/202412/20/Airbus_A300_B2_Zero-G5749.jpg")
![Eastern Air Lines was Airbus's first customer in the American market, ordering the Airbus A300 B4](/Images/godic/202412/20/Eastern_Air_Lines_Airbus_A300_at_St_Maarten_December_19865749.jpg")
![Airbus A340 introduced in 1993](/Images/godic/202412/20/Srilankan.a340.750pix5750.jpg")
![Airbus A330 introduced in 1994](/Images/godic/202412/20/Nwa_a330-300_n805nw_arp5750.jpg")
Airbus SAS (/ˈɛərbʌs/, French: [ɛʁbys], German:[ˈɛːɐbʊs], Spanish: [ˈerβus]) is a division of the multinational Airbus Group SE that manufactures civil aircraft. It is based in Blagnac, France, a suburb of Toulouse, with production and manufacturing facilities mainly in France, Germany, Spain, China, United Kingdom and the United States. The company employs 73,958.