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Airbus's first A321, prototype F-WWIA with IAE V2500 engines, took off from Hamburg-Finkenwerder on 11 March 1993, the stretched first derivative of the A320 that Lufthansa took into service in January 1994.

The first Airbus A319, the shortened A320 derivative, took off from the Airbus works airfield at Hamburg-Finkenwerder on 25 August 1995, the day after its rollout.

The first Airbus A318, F-WWIA with Pratt & Whitney PW6000 engines, flew from Hamburg-Finkenwerder on 15 January 2002 for 3 hours 44 minutes, the shortest member of the A320 family.

Airbus delivered the last A300 ever built, an A300-600F freighter, to FedEx on 12 July 2007, ending a 33-year programme of 561 aircraft and the first Airbus model to be discontinued.

The first A319neo, powered by CFM LEAP-1A engines, flew five hours from Hamburg to Toulouse on 31 March 2017 with test pilots Michel Gagneux and Eckard Hausser.

Airbus handed over the world's first A321neo, a LEAP-1A powered jet leased from GECAS, to Virgin America in Hamburg on 20 April 2017; the airline planned revenue service from 31 May.

On October 1, 2019, Airbus opened a highly automated fuselage structure assembly line for the A320 Family at its Hamburg-Finkenwerder site, using 20 robots to drill, countersink and rivet fuselage joints. The line was built to help meet the type's order backlog of more than 6,500 aircraft.

Airbus's first A321XLR, MSN 11000, took off from Hamburg-Finkenwerder at 11:05 CEST on 15 June 2022 and flew about four and a half hours.

Airbus delivered the first A321XLR to Iberia in Hamburg on 30 October 2024, making the Spanish carrier launch operator of the 4,700 nmi single-aisle.