Airbus Aerostructures

Hamburg is the largest site of Aerostructures and constitutes the competence centre for fuselage structure assembly. The board of management also has its headquarters here. At a glance, site Hamburg can be summarised as follows:

• Advanced Major Component Assembly and Equipping.
• Structural assembly and equipment of fuselage sections of the A320 family, A350 and A330 forward and after fuselage sections.
• Most modern structural assembly line in Airbus with robots, automatic positioning by laser measurement and improved ergonomics.
• Today, Hamburg is a production site for the A321XLR. The rear fuselage section, which contains the Rear Centre Tank (RCT) that is so important for the A321XLR, are assembled and equipped here. In addition, the most modern Airbus equipment assembly hangar (Hangar 259) is in operation.. Its counterpart, the new structure assembly hangar (Hangar 246), is also in the starting blocks.
• Important support functions at the site are a further guarantee for a stable value stream. These include small and large-scale logistics and the speed shop.

Nordenham is a centre of competence for highly automated structured assembly and integrated shell production.

• One of the world‘s most modern production facilities in the field of integrated shell production.
• Production of around 5,000 fuselage shells per year with state-of-the-art automatic riveting systems.
• Comprehensive manufacturing competence from shell production (metal and CFRP) via surface protection to the assembly of fuselage sections.
• Development of new, in particular digitalised manufacturing processes and automated assembly processes such as friction stir welding, automated riveting, 3D milling or bonding techniques and CFRP production.

Augsburg is one of the pioneering locations for aircraft construction in Germany, historically starting out in the technologically complex field of military aviation. Today, the focus is on the production and assembly of fuselage parts and structural components for civil and military programmes.

• Augsburg is a state-of-the-art assembly plant for complex aircraft structures
• More than five million components are manufactured in the four plant sections every year.
• Augsburg is an important location for civil shell and section manufacturing for almost all civil Airbus programmes.
• The rear centre tank, the heart of the new A321XLR long-range aircraft, is manufactured in Augsburg.
• In A350 production, Augsburg produces large components made of carbon fibre composite materials (CFC).
• In the military sector, assemblies for around 60 per cent of the fuselage of the A400M and the equipped centre fuselage of the Eurofighter are produced.
• In addition, there are complex welded assemblies for pipe systems and cable harnesses, which are installed or delivered to customers.

The Airbus Aerostructures site Braşov in Romania produces and assembles metal structures for almost all civil Airbus programmes and the A400M military transport aircraft, and has state-of-the-art machinery. 

• The focus in Braşov is on metal cutting, milling and turning, as well as related peripheral areas such as plate cutting, tool presetting, deburring and quality assurance. 
• Another focus at this location is the machining of special profiles for lightweight aircraft structures. For example, the longitudinal stiffeners (stringers) for almost all Airbus models, up to a length of four metres, are produced here using mechanical machining and forming processes. 
• A total of around 1,200 different profiles are manufactured here.
• This production facility has undergone continuous development since its inception: Starting as a greenfield project on an area of 26,000 square metres, Braşov has grown from around 160 to over 1,000 employees in 2024.