These involved Spirit AeroSystems, a company which is responsible for the production of aerostructures for various different commercial aircraft worldwide, including parts of the Airbus A350 XWB.

For the new Airbus A350 XWB, the French aircraft manufacturer put the plane under extreme stress tests. In a video posted to their YouTube page, Airbus showed how when extreme pressure is exerted ...

Air France-KLM is substituting two A350 passenger jets for freighter aircraft on its Airbus orderbook because it can get the passenger planes sooner.

"Specific supply chain challenges, notably with Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), are currently putting pressure on the ramp up of the A350 and the A220," it said. The company continues to target a ...

Extremely large hatch The Airbus A350F is based on the A350-1000 and has a maximum take-off weight of 319 tons. To optimize ...

The setback to the A350F comes as Airbus also struggles to increase output of existing A350 passenger jets, particularly due to ongoing delays in the arrival of fuselage parts from Spirit ...

The then-German defense minister, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, received the first Airbus A350-900 XWB in Hamburg in August 2020 during a handover ceremony with Lufthansa Technik. Source ...

The airframer states that it is facing “specific supply-chain challenges, notably with Spirit AeroSystems”, which are “putting pressure” on ramp-up of A350 production. Speaking during a ...

announced the delivery of one A350-900 aircraft on long-term lease to Societe Air France ("Air France"). Powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB Turbofan engines, this is the second of two aircraft to be ...

Both the A330neo and A350 aircraft families are powered by Rolls-Royce engines. The British OEM exclusively offers the Trent ...

Exclusive-Airbus to Delay A350 Freighter Amid Supply Problems, Sources Say PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus is poised to delay the entry into service of a freighter version of its A350 jet by up to a year ...