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British Airways Airbus A350 registrations

The British Airways Airbus A350 registrations record comprises 18 UK-registered Airbus A350-1000 aircraft operated by British Airways. The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) register extract dated 28 August 2026 records every aircraft as an Airbus A350-1041, registered and operated by British Airways plc under its Air Operator Certificate. The registration-level result agrees with both the CAA's June 2026 Heathrow fleet analysis and a current fleet database, each of which reports 18 British Airways A350-1000s.[1][2][3]

Scope and method

The table uses the CAA's current aircraft register for the registration mark, manufacturer serial number (MSN), year of build, current registration date, registration status, AOC holder and regulatory maximum-passenger field. G-INFO is intended to be updated at the end of each working day; the extract returned for these records was dated 28 August 2026 at 19:45.[1][4]

A separate current-fleet source was checked because registration and operation are different concepts. A UK registration can remain valid while an aircraft is undergoing maintenance or temporarily parked. Planespotters.net's British Airways fleet page, updated in August 2026, records all 18 A350-1000s in the current fleet. This page therefore uses Registered for the regulator status and does not infer that every airframe was serviceable or flying at the instant of the extract.[3]

The MSN is Airbus's permanent airframe identity. Registration date is the date the current UK registration took effect, not necessarily the first-flight or airline-delivery date. The CAA year-of-build field is likewise kept distinct from delivery year.

Current registrations

RegistrationMSNYear builtCurrent UK registration dateCAA statusAOC holderCAA maximum passengers
G-XWBA326201925 Jul 2019RegisteredBritish Airways plc331
G-XWBB340201919 Sep 2019RegisteredBritish Airways plc331
G-XWBC362201926 Nov 2019RegisteredBritish Airways plc331
G-XWBD374201923 Dec 2019RegisteredBritish Airways plc331
G-XWBE386201912 Feb 2020RegisteredBritish Airways plc331
G-XWBF402201915 May 2020RegisteredBritish Airways plc331
G-XWBG432202002 Oct 2020RegisteredBritish Airways plc331
G-XWBH446201914 Dec 2020RegisteredBritish Airways plc331
G-XWBI473202125 Mar 2022RegisteredBritish Airways plc440
G-XWBJ490202025 Feb 2022RegisteredBritish Airways plc440
G-XWBK495202009 Mar 2022RegisteredBritish Airways plc440
G-XWBL547202128 Apr 2022RegisteredBritish Airways plc440
G-XWBM563202226 Aug 2022RegisteredBritish Airways plc440
G-XWBN609202309 Jun 2023RegisteredBritish Airways plc440
G-XWBO617202319 Jul 2023RegisteredBritish Airways plc440
G-XWBP623202318 Aug 2023RegisteredBritish Airways plc440
G-XWBR639202315 Dec 2023RegisteredBritish Airways plc440
G-XWBS652202320 Feb 2024RegisteredBritish Airways plc440

All 18 records use ICAO type designator A35K and list two Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 engines. G-XWBQ is absent from the current fleet and is not treated as a missing aircraft: British registration sequences are allocations, not fleet counts, and gaps must not be filled by inference.[1]

Airframe and engine identity

British Airways operates the longer A350-1000, not the A350-900. EASA certifies the production model as A350-1041 with Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 engines. The -1041 model number and A35K ICAO designator describe the aircraft type; the individual MSN and UK registration identify each airframe.[5][6]

Every current CAA record lists the same engine family, but none identifies the serial numbers of engines fitted on the extract date. Engines can be replaced during maintenance, so an individual engine serial number must come from technical records rather than the aircraft's model designation.

The first eight registrations, G-XWBA through G-XWBH, have CAA regulatory maximum-passenger entries of 331. The ten later registrations have entries of 440. This is not evidence of two installed British Airways cabin layouts. The CAA describes maximum-passenger information as a regulatory field, while British Airways publishes a 331-seat operating cabin with 56 Club World, 56 World Traveller Plus and 219 World Traveller seats. The higher CAA figure must therefore not be presented as seats fitted in airline service.[7][6]

British Airways published cabinSeats
Club World56
World Traveller Plus56
World Traveller219
Total331

British Airways introduced its Club Suite business-class product with the A350-1000. Configuration can still change through refurbishment or operational substitution; the operator's current seat map is the appropriate source for a passenger booking, while the CAA field records regulatory capacity rather than saleable seats.[8][6]

Delivery and fleet development

Airbus delivered G-XWBA, MSN 326, to British Airways on 29 July 2019. It was the first A350-1000 in the International Airlines Group fleet and the first British Airways aircraft delivered with Club Suite. The CAA current-registration date of 25 July precedes the Airbus handover, illustrating why registration and delivery dates should not be used interchangeably.[8][1]

The original fleet grew to 18 aircraft, with the current register spanning MSNs 326 to 652. MSN order, year of build and registration date are not interchangeable. For example, the CAA records G-XWBJ, MSN 490, as built in 2020 and registered in February 2022, while G-XWBI, MSN 473, is recorded as built in 2021 and registered in March 2022. The values are retained exactly as the regulator publishes them rather than normalised into an assumed delivery sequence.

During 2025 International Airlines Group exercised options for six additional A350-1000s for British Airways. Those future aircraft are orders, not current registrations, and are excluded from the 18-aircraft table until a regulator and operator source establishes their identities and entry into the fleet.[9]

Registration use and status

The marks occupy most of the alphabetical sequence from G-XWBA to G-XWBS, with G-XWBQ unused in this fleet. G- is the United Kingdom nationality prefix; the following four letters form the aircraft's individual registration. The visual association between XWB and Airbus's former “A350 XWB” name is useful as a mnemonic but does not alter the registration's legal meaning.

G-INFO identifies British Airways plc as the AOC holder for all 18 aircraft. It does not provide route assignments. Flight tracking can show recent movements, but a movement is a point-in-time event and should not be converted into a permanent route or base claim. British Airways' A350 operation is principally associated with London Heathrow, while individual rotations remain mutable.[1][2]

G-XWBA has its own priority individual-aircraft page, where first flight, delivery, significant events and a dated airframe timeline can be recorded without duplicating the fleet register.

Data-quality notes

  • The table contains 18 unique registrations and 18 unique MSNs, matching the current fleet total in three independently scoped sources.

  • Registered is the CAA registration status. It is not a guarantee of immediate serviceability.

  • The AOC holder is the current operator recorded by the CAA; registered ownership and financing can be different.

  • Registration date, build year, first flight and delivery date are separate events.

  • The CAA maximum-passenger field is not substituted for British Airways' published 331-seat cabin.

  • Future A350-1000 orders have no registration in this table because marks and MSNs are not inferred before delivery evidence exists.

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