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The Airbus A300B2-1A received its initial type certificate on 15 March 1974, clearing Airbus's first production wide-body for airline service two months before its first delivery.

Air France took delivery of the first production Airbus A300B2, msn 005 registered F-BVGA, on 10 May 1974, thirteen days before the type entered scheduled service.

Airbus launched the shortened, longer-range A310 (originally the A300B10) into production on 7 July 1978 on the strength of orders from Swissair and Lufthansa.

The first Airbus A310, F-WZLH, flew for the first time from Toulouse on 3 April 1982, painted in Swissair colours on one side and Lufthansa on the other.

The Airbus A310-203 and A310-221 received their initial type certificates on 11 March 1983, a month before the first airline services with Swissair and Lufthansa.

The improved Airbus A300-600, with an A310-style two-crew cockpit and rear fuselage, made its first flight on 8 July 1983.

The Airbus A300B4-620, first of the -600 series, received its initial type certificate on 9 March 1984, three months before entering service with Saudi Arabian Airlines.