Building Giants: The BelugaXL Tour Leg 3

Leg 3 — LFBO → EGNR Toulouse → Hawarden/Broughton Mission: Position to Airbus Broughton in the United Kingdom to collect aircraft wings.

📖 Where Wings Are Born If there is one destination inseparable from the Beluga story, it is Broughton.

Airbus manufactures wings at its facility beside Hawarden Airport in North Wales. The site produces wings for major Airbus commercial-aircraft programs, and moving structures of that size presents an obvious problem.

You can't exactly put an A350 wing in the back of a truck and drive it through the Channel Tunnel.

That's where you come in.

As Hawarden appears ahead, you'll see an airport dramatically smaller than the enormous industrial airports one might expect the Beluga to use.

Yet this is part of the aircraft's everyday working environment.

Land.

Taxi to the specialized facility.

Open the enormous cargo door.

Load the wings.

And get moving.

Airbus describes Broughton as one of the major locations served by its Beluga fleet.