Airbus has said it has made a record amount of deliveries in 2009, beating US rival Boeing.
The planemaker handed over a total of 498 aircraft to customers in 2009, 15 more than in 2008 and ahead of Boeing for the seventh year running.
At the end of 2009, the company had a total order backlog of almost 3,500 aircraft.
That makes an order book worth $437bn (£270bn) – equal to six years of full production.
After adjusting for order cancellations, Airbus sold almost twice as many planes as Boeing in 2009 with net sales of 271 aircraft compared with Boeing’s 142.
