Yesterday, Air France’s eighth A380 (MSN099) performed her first flight.
She used call sign AIB01AF and spent just over two hours in the air.
Her ferry flight to Hamburg is scheduled for next week.
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Archive for the ‘First Flight’ Category
Yesterday, Singapore Airlines’ seventeenth A380 (MSN079) performed her first flight.
She used AIB01ST as her flight number, and after spending two hours in the air, returned to the Toulouse flight-line.
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Yesterday, Air France’s seventh A380 (MSN067) performed her first flight.
It is the first time in over a year that an Air France frame has made a first flight, and it has been four months since the last delivery.
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Yesterday, Singapore Airlines’ sixteenth A380 (MSN082) performed her first flight.
She was in the air for just over two hours, before returning to Toulouse.
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Yesterday, Emirates’ twenty-first A380 (MSN098) performed her first flight.
After spending just over three hours in the air, she returned to Toulouse, and taxied back to the flightline.
Delivery to the airline is scheduled for February 2012.
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Yesterday, China Southern’s third A380 (MSN054) performed her first flight.
Afer spending a few hours testing her systems, she headed for Hamburg.
Delivery to China Southern is scheduled for Q1 2012.
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Yesterday, Emirates’ twentieth A380 (MSN090) performed her first flight.
Overall MSN090 is the seventy first frame to be flying, and the fourteenth frame for 2011.
She will be transferred to Hamburg later this week.
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