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This week, MSN050 (Qantas #8) is scheduled to start up it’s engines for the first time in 9 months.
MSN050 made it’s first in August last year. Since then it has been storage in a flightline hangar in Toulouse (At Qantas’s Request). It is scheduled to fly to Hamburg for outfitting next week, With delivery schedule for January 2011.
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This week is looking to be a very quiet week. So for the moment we will be posting an production update from the Toulouse line.
MSN047 (Qantas #7) will roll out on Tuesday.
MSN048 (Lufthansa #4) is complete and will roll out late this week.
MSN050 (Qantas #9) is still on scheduled to roll out in early April.
MSN052 (Air France #5) is scheduled to roll out late this week or early next week.
MSN056 (Emirates #14) is scheduled to roll out in late April.
MSN057 (Emirates #15) is scheduled to roll out in the middle of June.
MSN071 (Singapore Airlines #14) will start body join on Wednesday.
Emirates have announced there A380 delivery schedule for 2010 and they will get eight A380s this year. They will be…
MSN025 – A6-EDH – 18 January 2010
MSN009 – A6-EDI – May 2010
MSN028 – A6-EDJ – June 2010
MSN030 – A6-EDK – July 2010
MSN046 – A6-EDL – August 2010
MSN042 – A6-EDM – September 2010
MSN056 – A6-EDN – October 2010
MSN057 – A6-EDO – November 2010
With the arrival of MSN058 (Singapore Airlines), Korean Airs first A380 (MSN035) is pushed back for a delivery to Q2 of 2011.
Well 2009 was a bad year for Airbus in the A380 section, With Airbus only delivering 10 A380s during 2009. These were MSN007, MSN017, MSN023 (Emirates), MSN019, MSN021, MSN034, MSN045 (Singapore Airlines), MSN026, MSN027 (Qantas) and MSN033 (Air France).
The A380s that did not make Airbus schedule of 12 for the year were MSN029 (Qantas #6) which will now be delivered on January 8th and MSN040 (Air France #2) which will be delivered in late January.
MSN028 (Emirates) left the paint hanger last week which now opens a spot for MSN038 (Lufthansa #1) to enter the paint hanger.
MSN030 (Emirates) has yet to start taxi tests but Airbus is hoping to start them this week.
MSN030 (Emirates #11) will start taxi tests within the next few days. In the photo below you can see that MSN030 has very little scaffolding around which usually means engine and taxi tests are imminent.
MSN046 (Emirates #12) also has little scaffolding around it and will start it’s taxi tests in the first or second week of January. As we mentioned earlier MSN041 (Lufthansa #2) has purple sheets around it’s engines, unlike MSN046. Which could easily mean that MSN046 will fly ahead of MSN041 even though it left Final Assembly later.
MSN029 (Qantas #6) will be delivered today and will arrive in Australia on the 1st of January.
The first convoy for 2010 has been announced. It will contain the remain pieces of MSN062 (Qantas #10) and a new MSN. This will have to be either MSN035 (Korean Air #1) or MSN058 (Singapore Airlines #12). I know we have said this for the last few Convoys. But we are certain that it will be one of these two.
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