Originally Posted by
Joe Bauers
I thought that the A320 was a clean sheet design. I know they used some A310/a300 architecture. Do you have any info that you can share? I'm curious.
It was. Before that only Boeing and MD were making NB jets. The jet went into design and development in 1984. The 321 followed very shortly after introduction of the A320 into revenue service with Air France around 1988. The 321 entered revenue service circa 1994 or so.