has just turned 50 but the celebrations were decide the decidedly low key along with so many successes the aerospace company has also seen his fair share of flops . for a global industrial giant this was a rather low key anniversary party they're both celebrated its 50th birthday with a company picnic employees got a souvenir key fob and free ice cream and there was a fly over that's all to celebrate 5 decades for the pan-european aircraft builder which was created in 1909 by german and french politicians airbus is now headquartered in the netherlands with major production sites in france germany spain the u.k. as well as china and the u.s. the company employs some 130000 people and has built 12000 commercial jets so far