As of February 2004, when I visited the Airbus Factory at Toulouse , France, this A380 was the largest example in the world. In May 2003, final assembly of all the components began with rollout scheduled around years end. The first flight of the world's largest commercial airliner occurred in March 2005 (following a January roll-out), with airline service beginning in mid 2006. Airchive was fortunate enough to visit and photograph selected locations of the massive plant in connection with a documentary I am overseeing for TLC produced by Darlow-Smithson Productions on the building of the Airbus A380. In fact, as I write this I am on my way to Dallas to tape John Travolta hosting our 3 part series, the first installment which premieres in June 2004. The visit to Toulouse was truly a personal highlight and I can't thank the folks at Airbus, Darlow Smithson's Tom Brisley and Sylvan Pascaud enough for this amazing opportunity. Over the day, we visited the A330/340 flightline, engineering HQ for the A380, the A380 factory undergoing construction, the amazing full size mock-ups of the A340-600 and A380 at the mock-up center, the delivery center, Beluga operations, A320 components depots, all capped off by a magnificent lunch in the Airbus VIP Club. Airbus allowed me to photograph many locations on the condition that they approve the images, which I am sharing with you.