AP 118 · No. 10 Section II · Aircraft 2005

Aircraft hub · 2005 · Modern

Airbus A380

The double-decker superjumbo, wings built at Broughton in North Wales, and the largest airliner ever built. No museum in the gazetteer holds one.

2005
First flight
254
Built
Mach 0.89
Top speed
0
Museums

Last verified 2026-10-18 against the gazetteer Compendium. Service bases and fleets change: check before travelling.

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Where to see the Airbus A380 in the UK

British Airways flies the A380 from Heathrow. No A380 is in a UK museum; preserved test aircraft are at the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, and Aeroscopia in Toulouse.

3D model

The A380-841, G-XLEA in 3D

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as G-XLEA, an Airbus A380-841 of British Airways, the airline’s first A380, delivered new in July 2013 and flown on its long-haul routes from Heathrow: a four-engined wide-bodied airliner with two full-length passenger decks in a deep oval fuselage, the flight deck set between them behind a rounded nose, a very large swept wing with small wingtip fences above and below the tip, four Rolls-Royce Trent 970 turbofans under the wing, a tall swept fin, and a 22-wheeled main undercarriage of two four-wheeled wing bogies and two six-wheeled body bogies: white upper fuselage over a midnight blue belly and belly fairing, split along a level line, the Chatham Dockyard Union flag on the fin above a red tail cone, the red and blue ‘speedmarque’ and ‘BRITISH AIRWAYS’ titles on the forward fuselage with a small coat of arms aft of them, grey wings and tailplane with red tips to the flap-track fairings, blue nacelles with metal intake lips, and ‘G-XLEA’ on the rear fuselage and under the port wing, as photographed between 2013 and 2026 (no A380 is preserved in a UK museum; shape from Airbus’s own airport-planning drawings of the A380-800; the coat of arms is simplified, and the small stencils, door placards and walkway lines are left off). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 300 models · download .glb (2.1 MB) · Plate 292 in The Hangar

Type notes

The Airbus A380 in brief

TypeAirbus A380 (A380-800)
UK museums holding oneNone