Aircraft
Airbus Inaugurates A330 Delivery Center in China
European airframer plans to outfit two airplanes per month for Chinese customers by 2019
A delegation of industry and government officials prepares to tour a Tianjin Airlines Airbus A330 parked outside the new Tianjin completions and delivery center. (Photo: Airbus)
A delegation of industry and government officials prepares to tour a Tianjin Airlines Airbus A330 parked outside the new Tianjin completions and delivery center. (Photo: Airbus)

Airbus on Wednesday celebrated the opening of its A330 completions and delivery center (C&DC) in Tianjin, China, and handed over the first airplane delivered from the new facility to Tianjin Airlines. Airbus and its Chinese partners in the €150 million venture—the Tianjin Free Trade Zone Investment Company and the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC)—expect to see the facility outfit two airplanes per month by early 2019. The center sits adjacent to the site of the Airbus A320 final assembly line in Tianjin, where Airbus produces four airplanes a month primarily for the Chinese market.