Airbus A340

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The Airbus A340 is a long-range, wide-body passenger airliner that was developed and produced by Airbus. In the mid-1970s, Airbus conceived several derivatives of the A300, its first airliner, and developed the A340 quadjet in parallel with the A330 twinjet. In June 1987, Airbus launched both designs with their first orders, with the A340-300 taking its maiden flight on 25 October 1991. It was certified along with the A340-200 on 22 December 1992, and both versions entered service in March 1993 with launch customers Lufthansa and Air France. The larger A340-500 and -600 were launched on 8 December 1997; the A340-600 first flying on 23 April 2001 and entering service on 1 August 2002. Keeping the eight-abreast economy cross-section of the A300, the early A340-200 and -300 has a similar airframe to the A330-200 and -300, sharing a wing design yet having slightly different fuselage lengths. Other differences include four 151 kN (34,000 lbf) CFM56s instead of two high-thrust turbofans to bypass...

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