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A380 Production Update: July 2011 (#12)

Oliver Gigacz — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:16:42 +0000

Yesterday, the tail for Lufthansa’s tenth A380 (MSN073) arrived in Toulouse for assembly.

The tail flew directly from Hamburg aboard an Airbus “Beluga”.

Image Copyright to Bernd 2011

A380 Production Update: November 2010 (#2)

Oliver Gigacz — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:53:44 +0000

The tail for Singapore Airlines fifteenth A380 (MSN076) has arrived in Toulouse, aboard the Airbus “Beluga”.

The tail will be joined to the rest of the body this week.

Delivery to Singapore Airlines is scheduled for Q3 2011.

Image Courtesy of Spotter-XFW

A380 Production Update: September 2010 (#11)

Oliver Gigacz — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:28:02 +0000

Yesterday hundreds of Airbus employees and their families were lucky enough to get a peak inside the A380 Final Assembly Line. Many people have already uploaded photos which has given us some updated information…

Lufthansa’s seventh A380 (MSN069) is preparing to have it’s first engine installed.

We expect MSN069 to be completed in approximately one month.

Later this week Qantas’s eleventh A380 (MSN063) is scheduled to begin body join, the tail arrived late last week on board an Airbus “Beluga” and is already in the tail jig.

Images Courtesy of jbg21 and Florent Peraudeau

A380 Production Update: September 2010 (#3)

Oliver Gigacz — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:07:17 +0000

The tail for China Southern’s first A380 (MSN031) has arrived in Toulouse on board an Airbus Beluga.

Over the next few days MSN031 will enter body join, which is expected to take around two weeks.

Image Courtesy of Philip Gallerand

A380 Production Update: May 2010 (#5)

Oliver Gigacz — Tue, 11 May 2010 08:05:32 +0000

On May 10th, The tail of Korean Air’s first A380 (MSN035) was transported to Toulouse on board an Airbus Beluga. Korean Air has yet to state what registration MSN035 will wear, But the tail suggests it will be HL8213.

Body Join for MSN035 began last Thursday and is expected to take two weeks.

Image Courtesy of Phil Gallerand

A380 Production Update: April 2010 (#17)

FabienA380 — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:47:51 +0000

The tail of MSN066 (Lufthansa #6) has now arrived in Toulouse, With Body Join beginning on Thursday. Body Join should take about two weeks to finish.

The tail of MSN035 (Korean Air #1) is scheduled to arrive in Toulouse in two weeks, On board the Beluga.

A video of Convoy #2010/07 is now available under this link convoy 2010/07.

Finally a picture of MSN065 (Singapore Airlines #13) in full view.

Image Courtesy of Clement R, Footage Courtesy of Blackbear

A380 Production Update: May 2009 (#19)

Oliver Gigacz — Sat, 30 May 2009 08:43:17 +0000

Just some more photos today. Here is another shot of MSN025, MSN047 and MSN043 on the flightline.

And here is MSN030s tail as it moves from Beluga unpack station to the body join hall.

MSN040 (F-WWSE) for Air France cancelled its first flight on May 29 and will hopefull have its first flight on Monday. MSN019 will be ferried today to Toulouse.