AIRBUS - 2019 Registration Document

Information on the Company’s Activities  / 1.1 Presentation of the Company

- - Voom delivers an on-demand urban air mobility service using helicopters. It successfully completed its beta phase pilot in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Mexico City. The operational management of Vahana, Voom and Altitscope is exercised by the new UAM organisation. Airbus China Innovation Centre (ACIC) ACIC, based in Shenzhen, is the first Innovation Centre set up by Airbus in Asia. Its mission is to fully leverage local advantages including innovative talents, partners and the eco-system, and combine this with Airbus’ expertise in aerospace to explore breakthroughs in technologies, business models and new growth opportunities. BizLab Airbus BizLab is the aerospace accelerator where startups and the Company’s intrapreneurs speed up the transformation of innovative ideas into valuable businesses. BizLab offers early- stage selected projects wide-ranging support in the form of a programme with a six-month acceleration phase. Startups and internal projects benefit from free hosting in BizLab facilities, have access to a large number of the Company’s coaches and experts in various domains, and participate in events such as a Demo Day with the Company’s decision makers, customers and partners. Airbus Helicopters Safety remained the 2018 priority by significant progress on components architecture and advanced usage and health systems development. Advanced algorithms to provide specific, early and reliable damaging diagnostic on crack initiation were developed to provide our H225 customers with maintenance credit. City Airbus, a three-to-four passenger optionally piloted electric vehicle demonstrator for unmanned air mobility, was a top priority of 2018 to gain experience and expertise on urban mobility and vehicle requirements. It has transitioned into Airbus Helicopters from the ExO and has successfully performed a power-on in November 2018 to launch the flight campaign in January 2019. The urban last mile delivery solution, Skyways, has demonstrated a delivery solution in 2018 after a first flight in January. Airbus Defence and Space A priority in 2018 was technology development supporting unmanned aerial systems data driven services to accelerate the business development in this area. Light weight sensors and communication links deployed on the Zephyr High-Altitude Pseudo Satellite were equally important than the automated data analytics on images and other surveillance data which in future will be more and more based on artificial intelligence algorithms. Integration and implementation of 3-D printing capabilities across the Division’s flying products was accelerated through group-wide initiatives and will continue to be qualified for flight (in military and commercial aircraft as well as in spacecraft / satellites). Technologies ensuring efficient satellite constellation management as well as preparing the next generation payload modules were matured to Technology Readiness for Product Integration.

Flight Demonstrators provide a maturation mechanism and maturity gates for the group R&T portfolio. The Demonstrators employ a CTO-established development methodology, including phasing and key gates, lightweight project management and earned-value management processes, including budgeting, HR and contracting mechanisms tailored for speed of execution. Central R&T is an R&T planning and delivery vehicle identifying and delivering technology through breakthrough research for future product generations. Central R&T portfolio is shared with Division R&T and is organised in five boost areas - data science, materials, communication technologies, electrics expertise and virtual product engineering. Ax R&T The Divisional R&T functions are primarily planning, decision making and arbitration teams accountable within their perimeters to both CTO and to Divisional Engineering and Product Strategy. Their responsibilities include securing continuous improvement in Divisional competitiveness and ability to develop business. Fast Track Domains serve as principal advisors to the CTO on technical vision and roadmaps for associated Technology Domain areas. Fast Tracks established to ensure coherency in the portfolio of activities and to rapidly advance strategic priorities are: - - Electrification; - - Industrial Systems and Manufacturing; - - Connectivity; - - Autonomy; - - Materials; Flight Demonstrators are a technology delivery vehicle for technological breakthroughs, providing a maturation mechanism and maturity gate for the R&T portfolio. The E-Fan family of technology demonstrators is a bold step towards all-electric and hybrid-electric flight aimed at establishing requirements for future certification of electrically powered airplanes and at training a new generation of designers and engineers for the challenges of electric flying. A 3 A 3 (pronounced “A-cubed”), is the advanced projects and partnerships outpost of the Company in Silicon Valley with the mission to disrupt the aerospace industry. - - Altiscope helps integrating unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the airspace. Using a simulator to evaluate policy options and operational models for air traffic management systems, it aims to service all forms of airborne traffic. - - Vahana is an electric urban air mobility vehicle designed to carry a single passenger or cargo. The objective is to fly at full scale an all-electric, self-piloted VTOL aircraft and discover the core set of requirements and technologies to enable self-piloted operations. The first Vahana full-size prototype successfully completed its first test flights in early 2018. - - Adam (Advanced Digital Design and Manufacturing) aims to develop methods and tools to drastically reduce development lead-time and production cost by leveraging emerging digital technologies. - - Wayfinder develops a scalable and certifiable platform for Autonomy and Machine Learning to enable future autonomous flight projects. - - Artificial Intelligence. Key Progress in 2018 Flight Demonstrators

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Airbus / Registration Document 2018