commercial airliner components website www.belairbus.be belairbus is a belgian aerospace manufacturer . it is a consortium established to allow a number of belgian companies to participate in the manufacturing of airbus aircraft while fulfilling airbus stipulation that it only deal with one entity in each european country that wants to be a part of the airbus manufacturing program . 1 it is a so called associated partner to airbus manufacturing parts of the airbus a320 family the airbus a340 series and the airbus a380 series of aircraft . 1 2 history edit belairbus was formed in 1979 as a consortium of the belgian government ; the development authority of wallonia ; and the companies sonaca formerly avions fairey fabrique nationale and asco . 3 the consortium was established to participate in manufacturing the airbus a310 being responsible for a310 wing leading edge slats slat tracks and krueger flaps . 3 airbus called belairbus an associate along with fokker as both companies were involved with manufacturing airbus aircraft without being shareholders in airbus . 3 4 the consortium partners are now sonaca asco industries and eurair a subsidiary of watteeuw group . 1 belairbus subcontracts manufacturing to these three consortium members . 1 each consortium member s share in belairbus is in proportion to the value of its production for the consortium ; sonaca s share is approximately 58 % asco s 35 % and eurair s 7 % with a single share also held by belgian aerospace company sabca . 1 references edit a b c d e introduction to belairbus belairbus website retrieved 2010 03 05 airbus programs sonaca group website retrieved 2010 03 05 a b c belgium takes stake in a310 flight international 12 may 1979 p. 1545 online version retrieved 2010 03 05 lambert & ramsden p. 1685 lambert mark & ramsden j. m. france s aerospace industry flight international 17 november 1979 pp. 1675 1703 online version retrieved 2010 03 05 external links edit berlairbus website asco industries website sonaca group website watteeuw group website this aeronautical company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this belgian company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title belairbus & oldid 668353565 categories aircraft manufacturers of belgiumaeronautical company stubsbelgian company stubshidden categories all stub articles 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 languages add links this page was last modified on 23 june 2015 at 20 53 . 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