Key facts
- Role
- Narrow-body airliner
- National origin
- Multi-national
- Manufacturer
- Airbus
- Status
- In limited service
- Primary users
- Air France Frontier Airlines (historical) LATAM Airlines (historical) Mexicana de Aviación (historical) Avianca Brasil (historical)
- Manufactured
- 2001–2013
- Introduction date
- 2003 with Frontier Airlines
- First flight
- 15 January 2002 ; 24 years ago ( 2002-01-15 )
- In service
- 2003–present
- Developed from
- Airbus A319
- Successors
- Airbus A220 (market segment)
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Airbus A320 family
- Operator
- Tyrolean Jet Services
- Country of origin
- France
- Developer
- Airbus SAS
- Manufacturer
- Airbus SAS
- Image
- Air France Airbus A318-111; F-GUGI@FRA;06.07.2011 603gt (5915187832).jpg
- Height
- 12.56
- Has use
- airliner
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- Commons gallery
- Airbus A318
- Commons category
- Airbus A318
- first flight
- 2002-01-15
- wingspan
- 34.10
- carries passengers or cargo
- passenger
- maximum capacity
- 132
- total produced
- 80
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Airbus A318, nicknamed the Baby Bus, is the smallest and least numerous variant airliner of the Airbus A320 family. The A318 carries 107 to 132 passengers and has a maximum range of 5,750 kilometres (3,100 nautical miles; 3,570 miles). Final assembly of the aircraft took place in Hamburg, Germany. It is intended primarily for short-range service.
The aircraft shares a common type rating with all other Airbus A320 family variants, allowing pilots to fly all versions of the aircraft without the need for further training. It is the second largest commercial aircraft certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency for steep approach operations, behind the Airbus A220, allowing flights at airports such as London City.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Airbus A318” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.