Airbus A350

what is it?

The Airbus A350 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine airliner developed and produced by Airbus. The initial A350 design, which was proposed in 2004 in response to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, would have been a development of the Airbus A330 with composite wings, advanced winglets, and new efficient engines. Due to inadequate market support, Airbus switched in 2006 to a clean-sheet extra wide body (XWB) design, powered by two Rolls-Royce Trent XWB high bypass turbofan engines.

🔎How to recognise it: 2 jet engines · 64.8 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 950 km/htop speed
• range 15,750 kmwithout refuelling
• size 283 tmax take-off weight
• built 295made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 13 years ago, in 2013.
• 🏎️Top speed is 7.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 64.8 m: about 14 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🐘Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 47 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 🌍Range of 15,750 km: Amsterdam to New York (≈5,850 km) without stopping.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.5× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.

spec sheet

first flight

2013-06-14

introduced

2015

status

still flying

number built

295

role

wide-body airliner with 2 jet engines

origin

🇫🇷 France

makers

Airbus Commercial Aircraft

engines

2× Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-84 / Rolls-Royce Trent XWB

crew

2

length

66.8 m

wingspan

64.8 m

max take-off weight

283 t

top speed

950 km/h

cruise speed

903 km/h

range

15,750 km

ceiling

13,137 m

ICAO code

A359, A35K

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.