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Why Does Airbus Not Have C/n Numbers?

DeltaWings From Switzerland, joined Aug 2004, 1289 posts, RR: 19
Posted (8 years 4 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 3422 times:

Boeing has C/N (construction numbers) and F/N (fuselage, line numbers).
cn numbers are the all produced airplanes of the company, since the company started. And FN numbers is the number of all produced planes of a line (all 777s).

But I have seen that Airbus only numbers the produced Airplanes in the families (like the A340, 330 line). They do not have numbers for all produced airplanes. But the thing is, they call the number of the amount of family produced aircraft the CN number. (they call the FN number the CN number) Why do they do this, and why is there no proper CN number?

DeltaWings

[Edited 2005-01-02 15:30:19]

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Newark777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 9348 posts, RR: 33
Reply 1, posted (8 years 4 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 3399 times:

Maybe because Airbus is a consortium of a few different airline manufacturers? Just a guess.

Harry

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Scbriml From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2003, 11360 posts, RR: 50
Reply 2, posted (8 years 4 months 3 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 3378 times:

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Airbus most certainly does have construction numbers for its aircraft. They start sequentially for each family - A300/310, A318/19/20/21, A330/40...

Check the Airbus listings at http://www.airlinerlist.com/

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