MSN047 along with MSN050 (Qantas #8) performed their first flights in August last year, but were put into long term storage until Q2 2010 at Qantas’s request.

Delivery of MSN047 is currently scheduled for the middle of November.

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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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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.

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.

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.

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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MSN052 (Air France #5) has been moved finally into the Final Assembly Line after lengthy stay on the flightline. She is currently situated in Station 30B.

MSN041 (Lufthansa #2) has now purple sheets covering the whole engines. This leads us to think that MSN041 will be spending more time on the flightline.

We also have the first shot of MSN046 (Emirates #12).

MSN023 (Emirates #7) was delivered to the airline on December 22nd. MSN023 is the 23rd A380 delivered. MSN029 (Qantas #6) is scheduled to be delivered on December 27th.

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This wraps up A380 Movements before Christmas. Our first after Christmas should be Boxing Day.

MSN057 (Emirates #15) has finished body join and will soon be transfered to Final Assembly. MSN061 (Lufthansa #5) will take MSN057′s spot in body join after Christmas.

MSN027 (Qantas #5) was supposed to arrive in Sydney from Toulouse (via Singapore) on Sunday night, but was delayed in Singapore and due to Sydney Airports curfew it was delivered in Melbourne. This is the first delivery of an Airbus A380 in Melbourne. Melbourne airport usually gets deliveries of Qantas’s Boeing B737s and Airbus A330s.

The photos show that they are currently are installing the overhead bins and finishes to the cockpit. The seats are currrently waiting outside the aircraft and will be installed after the inside walls are applied. The other thing to notice is that MSN038 is still not painted. Airbus is now painting there A380s later in the process of outfitting. This could be to do with how long outfitting takes and if paint is applied early then when the aircraft is delivered the paint could be four to five months old. The photos of MSN038 could have been taken anytime within the last month.

Lufthansa will recieve MSN038 in late May. Followed shortley by their second MSN041.

You can look at more photos here. http://www.mopo.de/2009/20091216/hamburg/panorama/hier_wird_ein_a380_schick_gemacht.html