Eligibility requirements for this new certification process include: 1  Written exam. 2  Formal education. 3  Design firm experience. 4  Adherence to a code of ethics.
Airbus began as a consortium (a group) of aircraft makers called Airbus Industrie. Later, in 2001, it became a joint-stock company. It was owned by EADS (80%) and BAE Systems (20%). BAE sold its part of the company to EADS on 13 October 2006, so EADS now completely owns the company.
What is Airbus? Airbus is an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of a European aerospace company called EADS and is based in Toulouse, France next to Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (2009) .Airbus is one of the leading manufacturers of aircraft in the world and supplies about half of all the worldâs jet airliners.heir mission is to âprovide the aircraft best suited to the markets needs and to support these aircraft with the highest quality of serviceâ (2009) . Although Airbusâ headquarters are in France, they also have subsidiaries in North America, China and Japan.