Авиагрузоперевозки в Африке

 

Gambia Bird Ltd. operates one of the most efficient and trusted types of aircraft – the Airbus A319-100.

 

Length

33.84 m

Wingspan
34.10 m

Body diameter                               
3.95 m

Seats
144

Max. take-off weight
75,000 kg

Cruising speed
840 km/h

Operating distance

Международные авиаперевозки грузов

6.800 km

Aircraft in service
2


History


The A319 is one of the smaller members of Airbus highly successful single-aisle airliner family currently in service, and competes with Boeing’s 737-300 and 737-700.

The A319 program was launched at the Paris Air Show in June 1993 on the basis of just six orders placed by ILFC late in 1992 and the predicted better prospects of the commercial airliner market, which were certainly realised. The first A319 airline order came from French carrier Air Inter (since merged into Air France), whose order for six was announced in February 1994. Since then, Swissair, Air Canada, Lufthansa, Northwest, United, US Airways and British Airways are among the major customers that have ordered more than 500 A319s (all also operate or have on order A320s).

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The A319 flew for the first time on August 25 1995 from Hamburg in Germany. European JAA certification and service entry, with Swissair, took place in April 1996.

The A319 is a minimum-change, shortened derivative of the highly successful A320. The major difference between the A320 and A319 is that the latter is shorter by seven fuselage frames, while in almost all other respects the A319 and A320 are identical.

Like the A321, A330 and A340, the A319 features Airbus common two-crew glass cockpit with sidestick controllers first introduced on the A320. There are significant crew training cost benefits and operational savings from this arrangement as the A319, A320 and A321 can all be flown by pilots with the same type rating, meaning that the same flight crew pool can fly any of the three types. Further, the identical cockpit means reduced training times for crews converting to the larger A330 and A340. The A319 is said to have the longest range in this category of airliner.

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Like the A321, A319 final assembly is taking place in Hamburg, Germany, by Airbus.