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  2. Airbus A320 family - Wikipedia

    • The Airbus A320 family are narrow-body (single-aisle) aircraft with a retractable tricycle landing gear and powered by two wing pylon-mounted turbofan engines. After the oil price rises of the 1970s, Airbus needed to minimise the trip fuel costs of the A320. To that end, it adopted composite primary structures for the empennage with a conventional tail configuration… See more

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    ManufacturerAirbus
    StatusIn service
    Overview

    The Airbus A320 family is a series of narrow-body airliners developed and produced by Airbus. The A320 was launched in March 1984, first flew on 22 February 1987, and was introduced in April 1988 by … See more

    Development

    When Airbus designed the A300 during the late 1960s and early 1970s, it envisaged a broad family of airliners with which to compete against Boeing and Douglas (later McDonnell Douglas), two established US aerospace … See more

     
  1. As of 2022, approximately 65% of Airbus A320 aircraft types are powered by CFM International CFM56 engines while the remaining 35% are IAE V2500 powered. However, for most applications, the CFM56 engine is regarded as the optimal type. This is primarily due to: Higher level of reliability
    aviationinfo.net/cfm56-vs-iae-v2500-airbus-a320-fa…
    A320 37.57 m 35.80 m 2 x CFM56-5A1 (111kN) or 2 x CFM56-5A3 (118kN) or 2 x IAE V2500 (125kN) turbofans.
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