A Global Affair: Where The Airbus A350’s Components Are Built

To understand where all the parts that go into building the Airbus A350 are made, you must first grasp the company’s vision and learn how it came to be. In the 1960s, European planemakers needed help competing with American giants like Boeing, Lockheed, and McDonnell Douglas. To counter the American giants, Aerospatiale-Matra of France, DASA from Germany, and later British Aerospace joined forces to create what is now a European multinational aerospace corporation with factories in many countries.