Airbus, which added Vietnam’s VietJet to its list of customers, has a backlog of more than a decade at current build rates.

Airbus SE said the governments of France and Spain agreed to fast-track some deliveries of the slow-selling A400M military transport aircraft as the main nations supporting the program seek to keep production going.

At Paris Air Show 2025, Airbus presented updates on A400M, FCAS, UAVs, and satellites, stressing multirole platforms and faster European defense integration.

France will speed up acquisition for four of the aircraft, while Spain will take three of them earlier than had been planned, Airbus said in a June 17 statement. The move assures production stability at a rate of eight aircraft per year through 2028, says Jean-Brice Dumont, head of air warfare programs at Airbus.

Airbus has signed a framework agreement with Naval Group for each Systèmes de Drone Aérien pour la Marine (SDAM) system to contain an Airbus VSR-700, operated with Naval Group’s Steeris Mission System, with the aviation giant also responsible for integrating the SDAM onto the French Navy’s vessels.

Airbus is encouraged by preliminary data analysis of CFM's RISE engine but the airframer's propulsion engineering chief insists that the open-rotor technology has still to cement its case for selection against geared-fan alternatives.

Airbus SE has been sounding out customers appetite for a longer version of its A220-300 jet that would give airlines more seating capacity but at the expense of range.

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) on Tuesday signed agreements that will see it manufacture the rudder for the A320 airliner of Airbus and become

Wizz Air has selected Pratt & Whitney engines to power up to 177 Airbus A321neos on order from the European aircraft manufacturer.