AIRBUS A300-B2 Aviation Parts list page 1

Airbus A300-B2 is categorized as a medium range wide body airliner

It is important not only for being a business success in its own right, but for being the 1st model of Europe's most victorious postwar airliner manufacturer.

It was Aerospatiale of France, CASA of Spain and the forerunners of Germany's DaimlerChrysler Aerospace and British Aerospace that formed the Airbus Industrie consortium on 1960s intended to make a 300 seat wide body `air bus' with twin engine to answer an recognized market gap.

The first 300 seat airliner design evolved into a smaller 250-seater, the A300 description having a `B' suffix was used to denote the change. Two prototype A300B1s were made then the B2 came into service with Air France on May of 1974.