The Airbus 380 is a British aircraft assembled in southwest France. Airbus likes to promote that only 4% of the cost is the Toulouse production. It‘s generally accepted that 20% of the aircraft are the wings, and every Airbus ever built, over 3,300 to date, started life at Chester. 30% of the aircraft are the engines and here Rolls-Royce are the lead supplier. Common sense would suggest that other British suppliers contribute at least 10% to the overall cost of the aircraft. These include BAE SYSTEMS for the inner leading edge droop; GKN, secondary structure and shroud box; Messier-Dowty for the nose landing gear; Smiths Aerospace for the landing gear extension and retraction system and for the concentrator multiplexer for video; Dunlop are an important supplier as is Barnes Aerospace, Cytec Engineering Materials, The FR Group, Pau Aerospace and Senior Aerospace