Airbus reaches 7,000 plane milestone

Posted on 16 Dec 2011 by Tim Brown
Less than two years after eclipsing the 6,000-delivery milestone, plane maker Airbus reached a new production benchmark on December 12 with the handover of the company’s 7,000th jetliner. This latest milestone aircraft was a single-aisle A321 for US Airways of the United States, which operates the world’s largest fleet of Airbus jetliners – to consist…

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