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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.

On 28 July 2008 Emirates received its first A380 at Airbus's Hamburg plant and unveiled a cabin with first-class showers and an onboard lounge. The Gulf carrier, the biggest A380 customer with 58 ordered, flew it Dubai to New York on 1 August.

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 16 December 2021 Emirates received the last Airbus A380, A6-EVS, its 123rd, ending 14 years of deliveries. The ceremony was muted and the jet left Hamburg-Finkenwerder at 16:41 CET for Dubai.

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.