. please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . may 2015 eads efw elbe flugzeugwerke gmbh type gmbh industry aerospace founded 1955 1990 headquarters dresden germany key people andreas sperl products aircraft conversion revenue 225 2 mio number of employees 1143 parent eads website 1 footnotes references eads efw facts at a glance eads efw eads elbe flugzeugwerke gmbh literally elbe aircraft works is a subsidiary and business unit of eads in dresden . it is located at the dresden airport and became the centre of freighter aircraft conversion in the eads group . contents 1 history 2 airbus and eads 3 airbus freighter conversion gmbh 4 references 5 external links history edit the elbe flugzeugwerke were founded in 1955 when ilyushin il 14 aircraft were built under license in dresden . concurrently the works started to develop and to test the baade b 152 the gdr s own passenger jet program . the works employed up to 8000 personnel and some 25 000 in supplying industries which were bundled in a combined volkseigener betrieb in 1958 . 1 the second prototype of the b 152 crashed on 30 april 1958 and the aircraft development was delayed . after the gdr stopped its entire aircraft program in 1961 the veb flugzeugwerft dresden became a maintenance work for mig combat planes and mil helicopters of the warsaw pact air forces . it also maintained the interflug airbus a310 fleet which was delivered in 1989 . 1 airbus and eads edit after the reunification of germany veb flugzeugwerft dresden was supported by deutsche airbus hamburg . the elbe flugzeugwerke gmbh was founded at 27 april 1990 by dasa and airbus . since dasa a rospatiale matra and construcciones aeron uticas merged eads is the only owner of the elbe flugzeugwerke . 1 elbe flugzeugwerke gmbh is a supplier of fiber reinforced furnishing components used in airbus planes since 1993 . it has a capacity of up to 200 000 sandwich components per year . 2 the company started to convert former passenger aircraft into freighters in 1996 . it holds the competence of the conversion of airbus a300 and airbus a310 planes which lasts about four months and includes higher aircraft maintenance checks . 3 it also converts airbus a310 mrtt and airbus a330 mrtt 4 and was designated to deliver the first four prototypal northrop grumman kc 45 planes without military tanker equipment . 5 airbus freighter conversion gmbh edit eads efw is co proprietor of the airbus freighter conversion gmbh located also in dresden . the joint venture with the eads sister company airbus russian government owned united aircraft corporation and irkut was established in 2007 to build up a second converting production line in lukhovitsy russia . eads efw has the largest stake of 32 % airbus has 18 % while the russian shareholder both own a fourth . 6 references edit a b c eads efw aeronautics activities in dresden know how gained through decades eads efw the centre of excellence for the manufacture of fibre reinforced components eads efw the airbus freighter conversion experts eads efw special programmes mrt t s chsische zeitung dresden profitiert von eads milliardenauftrag german eads airbus freighter conversion starts operational business external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to veb flugzeugwerke dresden . eads efw website coordinates 51 07 44 n 13 46 23 e 51.129 n 13.773 e 51.129 ; 13.773 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title eads efw & oldid 682092611 categories airbus group subsidiaries and divisionscompanies based in dresdenhidden categories wikipedia articles in need of updating from may 2015all wikipedia articles in need of updatingcommons category with local link same as on wikidatacoordinates not on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschsuomi edit links this page was last modified on 21 september 2015 at 14 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view