Aircraft
Airbus Starts A350 XWB Production in Germany
Airbus has started making parts for the A350 XWB i

Airbus has started making parts for the A350 XWB in Germany, the company announced today. Tom Enders, Airbus president and CEO, Gerald Weber, Airbus Germany executive vice president of operations and chairman of the board of management, and Peter Hintze, Parliamentary state secretary and German government aerospace coordinator, hosted a ceremony marking the event at the company's production plant in Stade.

The first German component–the airplane's upper wing shell–measures almost 32 meters by 6 meters (105 feet by 20 feet), making it the largest carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) part ever built by Airbus.