4031982 First Flight of the Arbus A310

DALLAS – Today in Aviation, the first Airbus A310 prototype conducted its maiden flight in 1982. It received its type certification on March 11, 1983. The Airbus A310 is a wide-body aircraft designed and manufactured by Airbus Industrie, a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers at the time. Before the new decade arrived, Airbus had already required a plane that was smaller than the A300, the world’s first twin-jet wide-body. The British, French, and West German governments’ memorandum of understanding (MoU), signed on September 26, 1967, paved the way for the inception of the 300-seat Airbus A300, the consortium’s first airliner.…