The original — the A350 most airlines fly ·First flight 2013 · In service 2015
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The A350-900 is the variant that launched the family and still makes up the bulk of the fleet. It flew for the first time on 14 June 2013 at Toulouse and entered service with Qatar Airways in January 2015.
More than half of its structure is carbon-fibre composite, which keeps it light and corrosion-free, and two Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-84 engines give it the legs to fly roughly 15,000 km with around 300–350 passengers.
Lufthansa marked its 100th birthday in 2026 by painting several aircraft in a special centennial livery — a deep blue fuselage, an oversized white crane and the dates 1926 | 2026. A350-900 D-AIXL "Rostock" was one of the first to wear it.
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Lufthansa A350-900 D-AIXL "Rostock" in the 1926–2026 centennial livery, Beijing, March 2026N509FZ · CC BY-SA 4.0D-AIXL arriving at Cologne Bonn after Lufthansa's 100th-birthday special flight, April 2026Thekuner · CC BY-SA 4.0Centennial livery from below — "1926 | 2026" along the fuselageN509FZ · CC BY-SA 4.0Lufthansa's first A350-900, D-AIXA, in the classic livery at Stuttgart, 2016Julian Herzog · CC BY 4.0
