BUILDING THE GIANT

摘要

Each A380 is built at the Toulouse-Blagnac Final Assembly Line (FAL), but the production process is pan-European. In France, the Saint-Nazaire factory builds, assembles, equips and tests front and central fuselage sections. The Saint-Eloi plant in Toulouse manufactures and integrates pylon and nacelle components and the Nantes facility builds centre wing boxes, ailerons and air inlets. Nose sections, including the cockpit, are produced in Meaulte. There are four factories in Germany. The forward and rear fuselage sections are built in Hamburg, the wings' high-life systems in Bremen, vertical tailplanes in Stade and all the electronic communications and cabin management systems at Buxtehude.