> In the Airbus world, final assembly tends to mean bolting together a relatively low number of finished sections that were produced somewhere else. Pretty mu

> In the Airbus world, final assembly tends to mean bolting together a relatively low number of finished sections that were produced somewhere else. Pretty much the same as modern Boeing. Something like 70% of the 787 structure is made abroad but glued together in the USA: http://static1.uk.businessinsider.com/image/58a768badd0895f0288b4818-800-/chart-889.jpg http://static1.uk.businessinsider.com/image/58a768badd0895f0... Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Sweden and ( if RR engines chosen ) UK all send their assemblies to Seattle and Charleston. That's without considering avionics and internal systems. Hence the wording 'Country of final assembly' on the onboard safety cards, carefully chosen to obscure origins.