The Airbus A300 was manufactured from 1971 to 2007 and remains in service, and 561 were built. It was able to typically seat 247 passengers in a two-class configuration while operating routes of ...

The first Airbus A300 transformed and accelerated air travel worldwide. Its creation was a challenging feat that required cooperation across continents to come to fruition. During the 1960s, the U ...

Airbus Industrie would develop the world’s first wide-body twin-engine jet airliner, the Airbus A300. It was a plane that would launch an empire. Light and efficient ...

The A300-600 is an advanced version of the original Airbus plane, the A300. The 250-seat A300 was launched in May 1969 and entered commercial service in 1974.

An Airbus A300-600ST Beluga cargo aircraft. The plane maker has warned it will deliver fewer aircraft this year. (Ed Jones/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) Airbus shares sank after the plane ...

Right off the bat, Airbus had a winning combination in the A300, A310, and A320. The fearsome tag team helped Airbus proliferate its business globally from the mid-80s to the early 1990s.

Nicknamed the Beluga, it's technically the Airbus A300-600ST. The aircraft initially was called the Super Transporter in the 1990s when it began to phase out a earlier transport model dubbed the ...

The A300 was not just the first Airbus plane, but also the world's first twin-engined widebody jet. When it first took flight in 1972, all other double-aisle jets had three or four engines, like ...

At Airbus, the A300 (and A310) fleets are being managed by the out-of-production organization that is also handling the A380. They do not manage the A340, since it is seen as a sister program to ...

Airbus A300-600ST-Beluga, preparing to land at Hawarden Airport, Flintshire. (Image: Robert Parry-Jones) Get the latest Wales Online breaking news on WhatsApp.

Take a look at the fascinating history of the Airbus A300, the plane that launched an aviation empire and challenged American dominance of commercial flight.