{"id":257245,"date":"2025-07-26T21:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-airbus-a300s-left\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T21:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:00:17","slug":"how-many-airbus-a300s-are-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=257245","title":{"rendered":"How Many Airbus A300s Are Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2043683\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-a300-service-entry\/\" >Airbus A300 stands out for being the aircraft that got Airbus going<\/a><\/span> and set it on the path to becoming the world&#8217;s largest airplane maker. However, this aircraft has been out of production for around 18 years, so how many of these old aircraft are still flying today? According to data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch-aviation.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >ch-aviation<\/a>, there were a total of 132 examples still operational in early 2025, mostly as freighters. The world&#8217;s remaining passenger A300s are all flying in Iran, a nation blighted by sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the world&#8217;s remaining Airbus A300s are freighters in service with three of the world&#8217;s largest cargo companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,3935,396,976,1523,4350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a300","category-aircraft","category-dhl","category-fedex","category-ups"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257246,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257245\/revisions\/257246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}