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The first ATR 42 took off from Toulouse on 16 August 1984, 33 months after Aérospatiale and Aeritalia signed the ATR agreement.

ATR handed the first production ATR 42-300 to French launch customer Air Littoral on 3 December 1985, ten weeks after the type was certified by the French and Italian authorities.

The stretched ATR 72 flew for the first time from ATR's Toulouse facility on 27 October 1988, almost three years after the programme was announced in January 1986.

Finnair received the first ATR 72 on 27 October 1989, a month after French certification, and became the first airline to operate the 66-seat stretch.

The Airbus A340-300, the first Airbus with four engines, made its maiden flight on 25 October 1991 and began a two-year test programme with six aircraft. Testing showed the wing had to be stiffened to carry the outboard engines at cruise speed.

The first Airbus A330, a -300, made its maiden flight on 2 November 1992, a 5 hour 15 minute sortie with 21 tonnes of test equipment on board. Certification followed in October 1993 and service with Air Inter in January 1994.

The shortened A330-200 made its maiden flight from Toulouse on 13 August 1997, a four-hour sortie that opened a 630-hour test programme. It was Airbus's answer to the Boeing 767-300ER, with 12,000 km of range.

The 380-seat A340-600, the longest and largest Airbus airliner to date, flew for the first time on 23 April 2001 from Toulouse, a 5 hour 22 minute flight at over 300 tonnes. Airbus targeted certification and service entry for mid-2002.

ATR handed over the first two ATR 72-600s, the new "-600" series with a five-screen glass cockpit and Armonia cabin, to launch operator Royal Air Maroc in Toulouse on 19 August 2011.

The first A350-900, MSN1 F-WXWB, took off from Toulouse-Blagnac at 10:00 local time on 14 June 2013 and flew for 4 hours 5 minutes over south-western France, opening a 2,500-hour flight-test campaign.

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.

Airbus handed over the first A350-900 to launch customer Qatar Airways at a ceremony in Toulouse on 22 December 2014, seven years after the airline placed its launch order at the Paris Air Show.

The first A350-1000, MSN059 with Trent XWB-97 engines, flew from Toulouse-Blagnac on 24 November 2016 for 4 hours 18 minutes, starting a sub-one-year, three-aircraft test campaign.

The first A330neo, an A330-900 (MSN1795) with Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 engines, took off from Toulouse on 19 October 2017 and flew 4 hours 13 minutes. Airbus planned 1,100 flight hours for certification.

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.

Airbus handed over the world's first A350-1000 to launch customer Qatar Airways at Toulouse on 20 February 2018, the first Airbus aircraft fitted with the Qsuite business class, which flew its first revenue service four days later.

Airbus delivered the first A350-900ULR, MSN220 9V-SGA, to launch customer Singapore Airlines on 22 September 2018; the 161-seat, 9,700 nm aircraft restarted the Singapore-Newark nonstop three weeks later.

On 13 November 2024 ATR said it would end development of the ATR 42-600S short-take-off variant, citing a smaller market and supply-chain problems, after 20 commitments and a 2022 first flight.

The first A350-1000ULR, MSN707 F-WULR, flew from Toulouse on 2 June 2026 for 3 hours 43 minutes, starting a two-month campaign to certify the rear centre tank that lets Qantas plan 22-hour Project Sunrise flights.