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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.

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 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.

On 12 December 2006 EASA and the FAA handed Airbus the A380 type certificates at a ceremony in Toulouse, ten months before the first delivery. It was the first large aircraft certified by EASA.

The FAA and EASA certified the Rolls-Royce-powered 787-8 on 26 August 2011 at a ceremony in Everett, clearing the way for first delivery. Certification came nearly two years after first flight.

On 3 February 2012 EASA issued Type Certificate A-176 for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (RRJ-95B), the first Russian large passenger aircraft to meet CS-25 and the clearance for European airlines to fly it.

EASA issued the type certificate for the Airbus A350-900 on 30 September 2014 after more than 2,600 flight-test hours on five aircraft; FAA certification followed on 12 November.

The A350-1000 received type certificates from both EASA and the FAA on 21 November 2017, less than a year after its first flight and after more than 1,600 flight-test hours on three aircraft.

On 28 February 2018 Embraer's E190-E2 received its type certificate from ANAC, the FAA and EASA at once, 56 months after launch, clearing the first E2 for delivery to Widerøe.

EASA certified the A330-900 on 26 September 2018 after about 1,400 flight-test hours in under a year. Airbus said FAA certification would follow shortly and the first delivery to TAP Air Portugal in the coming weeks.

EASA certified the CFM LEAP-1A-powered A321XLR on 19 July 2024, clearing the 4,700 nmi single-aisle for service at the end of the summer.

Airbus's first A350F, MSN700 (F-WXLD), took off from Toulouse-Blagnac at about 10:30 local time on 29 September 2026 and flew for 4 hours 10 minutes, opening a roughly 400-hour certification campaign ahead of a first delivery in the second half of 2027.

As launch customer, WestJet expects to take the first Boeing 737-10 in early 2027 once Transport Canada and EASA validate the FAA certification, which Boeing's Mike Sinnett put at "probably a couple months" away.