page_title: Airbus
section_title: Military planes
hierarchical_section_title: Airbus / Military planes
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le premier Airbus A400M, entouré des employés d'EADS, durant la première présentation mondiale de l'avion (roll-out), célébrée à Séville le 26 juin 2008. Deutsch: Erster Prototyp des Airbus A400M, umgeben von Mitarbeitern der EADS, während des ersten feierlichen Roll-outs in Sevilla am 26. Juni 2008. English: The first Airbus A400M, surrounded by EADS employees, during the aircraft's world-premiere presentation (roll-out), celebrated in Seville on 26 June 2008. Español: El primer Airbus A400M, rodeado de empleados de EADS, durante la primera presentación mundial de la aeronave (roll-out), celebrada en Sevilla el 26 de Junio de 2008.
context_page_description: Airbus SE is a company which makes aircraft. It is owned by EADS, a European aerospace company. Airbus has its headquarters in Blagnac, France.
  Airbus began as a consortium of aircraft makers called Airbus Industrie. Later, in 2001, it became a joint-stock company. It was owned by EADS and BAE Systems. BAE sold its part of the company to EADS on 13 October 2006, so EADS now completely owns the company.
  Around 55,000 people work for Airbus in sixteen places in four European Union countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain. The final part of Airbus aircraft making is done in Toulouse, France; Hamburg, Germany; Seville, Spain; and, since 2009, Tianjin, China.
  Airbus makes and sells the first digital fly-by-wire airliner, the Airbus A320. Airbus also makes the biggest airliner in the world, the Airbus A380.
context_section_description: In the late 1990s Airbus became interested in designing and selling aircraft to the military. Airbus made planes for aerial refuelling with the Airbus A310 MRTT and the Airbus A330 MRTT, and tactical airlift with the A400M.
  In January 1999, Airbus started another company, Airbus Military SAS, to design and make a tactical transport aircraft, the Airbus Military A400M. The A400M was designed by several NATO members: Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Turkey, and the UK, so that these countries did not have to use foreign transport planes. The A400M has had many delays.
caption: The first A400M in Seville on 26 June 2008.
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