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Last Friday marked the first time that Airbus delivered two separate A380s on the same day. The A380s in question were MSN041 (Lufthansa #2) and MSN051 (Singapore Airlines #11).
With these deliveries, the total number of A380s in airlines service is 33 (11 each for Emirates and Singapore Airlines, 6 for Qantas, 3 for Air France and 2 for Lufthansa)
We mentioned in our previous post that Qantas’s ninth A380 (MSN055) was scheduled to make it’s first flight on July 12th. Just after we posted this Airbus changed the schedule saying first flight had been delayed until July 14.
Here is MSN055 performing a taxi run late yesterday evening.
Airbus have announced that Lufthansa’s second A380 (MSN041) will be delivered on July 16.
Image Courtesy of Yvan Panas
Lufthansa’s second A380 (MSN041) has taken to the air for the first time since it was transferred to Hamburg in January.
MSN041 will be delivered in July
Earlier in the week a great photo of the Toulouse flightline was posted to Flickr. The picture also confirms that Singapore Airlines twelfth (MSN058) has been moved to engine test bay.
Images Courtesy of By Phil Gallerand and Bruce Irving
Emirates’s fifteenth A380 (MSN057) performed her first flight on June 11th, This also happened to be her ferry flight to Hamburg.
MSN046 (Emirates #12) has been rolled out of the Hamburg outfitting hangars and is now situated on the flightline next to MSN041 (Lufthansa #2). Delivery is currently scheduled for July 23rd.
Image Courtesy of David BARRIE
Lufthansa’s second A380 (MSN041) has been rolled out of the Hamburg hangars, after paint was completed earlier in the week.
MSN041 will now be prepared for Cabin Testing, with delivery currently scheduled for late June.
MSN047 (Qantas #7) has been rescheduled to make it’s ferry flight to Hamburg either late today or late tomorrow.
A lot of people have been asking on the forum about the delivery dates for certain frames, So to quickly answer all those questions here are the delivery dates that we know of.
MSN041 (Lufthansa #2) – June 2010
MSN030 (Emirates #11) – July 2010
MSN044 (Lufthansa #3) – July 2010
MSN046 (Emirates #12) – August 2010
MSN042 (Emirates #13) – September 2010
MSN049 (Air France #4) – September 2010
MSN048 (Lufthansa #4) – October 2010
MSN056 (Emirates #14) – October 2010
MSN047 (Qantas #7) – November 2010
MSN057 (Emirates #15) – December 2010
MSN050 (Qantas #8) – January 2011
MSN055 (Qantas #9) – January 2011
MSN061 (Lufthansa #5) – January 2011
All Dates are Subject to Change
(The delivery dates for MSN035, MSN052, MSN058, MSN062, MSN064, MSN065, MSN066, MSN069, MSN071 will be posted soon)
MSN042 (Emirates #13) performed it’s first taxi tests yesterday. The aircraft will now perform a Rejected Take Off test (31st March or 1st April), Before performing it’s first flight later this week.
We can now confirm that the forward fuselage on Convoy #6/2010 will be either MSN066 (Lufthansa #6) or MSN031 (China Southern #1).
It is still unknown when the first A380 for Korean Air will be convoyed. At a guess I would say within two months, But time will tell.
Last week Section 19 of Korean Air’s fourth A380 (MSN068) was transferred from Toulouse to Hamburg for completion.
Image Courtesy of Yannick Delamarre
