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This story originally<\/span> appeared on WIRED Italia<\/a> and has been translated from Italian.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the most important moment in the life of an airliner: when the new owner signs for it and picks it up, much like a driver picking up a new car from a dealer.<\/p>\n

The aircraft in question is an Airbus A321neo, and it is parked at Hamburg-Finkenwerder, the German city\u2019s second airport, which Airbus uses for testing, logistics, and delivery of airplanes to customers. Gathered around the plane are pilots and cabin crew, as well as two executives from Wizz Air, the low-cost Hungarian airline that is about to take delivery of it.<\/p>\n

Airlines and manufacturers never disclose how much they pay for individual aircraft\u2014partly because prices depend on many factors, including the number of planes purchased and the commercial history of each individual airline\u2014but buying a plane is never cheap. The base price of a single Airbus A321neo is estimated to be around $110 million.<\/p>\n

This particular plane, registered by Wizz Air as H9-WNM, was produced in Airbus\u2019s Hamburg factory in just over a year. The site is one of the company\u2019s four production centers, the others being in Toulouse, France; Mobile, Alabama; and Tianjin, China. Known as final assembly lines (FAL), these giant workshops are where a plane\u2019s structural parts, on-board electronics, hydraulic and mechanical components, and other pieces all come together.<\/p>\n

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