Airbus Mobile

The Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility is an assembly site for Airbus's Commercial Airplanes division, located at the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The plant is an assembly and delivery site for Airbus commercial aircraft in the United States and one of the largest employment centers in the state. The site is one of four final assembly and delivery points for the Airbus A320neo family and one of two final assembly and delivery points for the Airbus A220.

History

The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), the predecessor to the modern Airbus SE, announced in June 2005 that it selected Mobile, Alabama for an aircraft manufacturing facility. The company felt that a U.S. manufacturing facility would help it better compete for military aircraft contracts. EADS said that it had picked Mobile for its nearby deep-water port off the Gulf of Mexico, an abundance of industrial space available within the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley, the site of the former Brookley Air Force Base, and access to the uncongested Mobile Downtown Airport. EADS also built an engineering office at the site, which opened in 2006.[2]

In 2008, EADS launched a joint bid with

Aircraft in production

Airbus A320

The Mobile plant is a final assembly site for the Airbus A320neo family of narrow-body aircraft, and previously for the Airbus A320 family. Aircraft assembled in Mobile are delivered primarily to airlines based in North America. On June 21, 2015, the main fuselage components for the first aircraft built at the site arrived at the plant, and the first completed aircraft—an A321—was delivered to JetBlue on April 25, 2016.[11]

Major aircraft components, including the wings and fuselage sections, are manufactured at Airbus facilities across Europe and transported to Saint-Nazaire, France, where four aircraft worth of parts are loaded onto a barge. Following a transatlantic crossing, the parts are unloaded at the Port of Mobile and trucked to the factory for assembly.[12][13]

As of 2021, the Mobile site had the capacity to assemble seven A320-family aircraft per month, with plans to add a second assembly line to increase output to 20 aircraft per month.[14][15] The facility was also the final assembly site for the last A320ceo-family aircraft produced, an A321 registered N129DN, which was delivered to Delta Air Lines on December 16, 2021.[16] In October 2025, Airbus opened the second A320neo-family final assembly line at the Mobile facility.[17][18]

Airbus A220

The Mobile plant has also been used as a final assembly line for Airbus A220 narrow-body aircraft since August 2019. The first aircraft from the new line, an A220-300, was delivered to Delta in October 2020.[19] Airbus plans to ramp production in Alabama up to four A220 aircraft each month by 2025.[20]

Airbus acquired a majority stake in the Bombardier CSeries programme in October 2017, renaming the aircraft the A220.[21][22] While manufacturing of the A220 was already under construction at facilities in the province of Quebec, formerly owned by Bombardier, the aircraft was potentially facing steep tariffs for Canadian-made planes being purchased by U.S. airlines. Airbus announced that to avoid the possible tariffs, it would set up a second assembly line for the A220 at the Airbus Mobile factory.[23]

built	April 8, 2013
location	320 Airbus Way Mobile, Alabama United States
coordinates	°N, °W
operated	September 14, 2015–Present
industry	Aerospace
products	Airbus A220 Airbus A320neo family
employees	2,200‡R1R‡
address	airbusalabama.com
owner	Airbus

History

Aircraft in production

Airbus A320

Airbus A220

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