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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.
