Airbus Industrie (Corporate Name)

Quittard, J. Airbus, c1979 (subj.) p. 13, etc. (Airbus Industrie) p. 92 (officially est. 5/29/69)

Business Insider website, 8 September 2018 (the Airbus consortium was based at the headquarters of Sud Aviation in Toulouse, France where it remains today)

Wikipedia, viewed 21 February 2019: under History of Airbus (Airbus Industrie began as a consortium of European aviation firms; formally established as a Groupement d'Intérêt Économique (Economic Interest Group or GIE) on 18 December 1970; formed by a government initiative between France, West Germany and the UK that originated in 1967; the name "Airbus" was taken from a non-proprietary term used by the airline industry in the 1960s to refer to a commercial aircraft of a certain size and range)

Wikipedia, viewed 21 February 2019: under Airbus (in 2000, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) NV was established, which owned 80% of Airbus Industrie GIE; in 2001, Airbus Industrie GIE was reorganised as Airbus SAS, a simplified joint-stock company) under British Aerospace (in 1979 BAe (predecessor of BAE Systems) officially joined Airbus, the UK having previously withdrawn support for the consortium in April 1969)

EADS. Milestones [annual report] 2000: page 22 (Airbus' former "economic interest grouping" consortium structure (known by its French acronym "GIE") is to be replaced by a new Airbus company, which integrates all its operations in a single operating company, known under French law as a "Société par Actions Simplifiée") ; 2001: page 32-33 (Airbus has been an integrated, stand-alone company with a single management team since July 2001 but has been operating on an integrated basis since the beginning of 2001)