Lufthansa have registered the aircraft as (D-AIMD) and have named it Tokio.

D-AIMD will stay in Hamburg for a few more days, before being transferred to Frankfurt.

Image Courtesy of Linie9fecit

MSN048 went through a series of taxi tests prior to the first cabin test flight earlier in the week. Delivery is scheduled for November.

Image found on Pic-Aero.de

To our understanding this is first tme a frame has begun cabin testing prior to being painted. We are unsure if this will become a common site. Only time will tell.

Image Courtesy of David Barrie

First flight occurred yesterday. She is now on the flightline, waiting for a spot to open up in Hamburg.

Updates from Hamburg:

Air France’s fourth A380 (MSN049) was delivered on Thursday, exactly one year after she was convoyed to Toulouse

Emirates’s twelfth A380 (MSN046) is planned for delivery on Thursday.

Emirates’s thirteenth A380 (MSN042) has been spotted fully painted on the Hamburg flightline. Delivery is expected in September.

Image Courtesy of David BARRIE

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)

A spotter in Hamburg managed to film MSN048 landing in Hamburg, CLICK HERE to take a look.

MSN062 (Qantas #10) has completed Stage 1 Final Assembly and is now waiting for a spot in Stage 2. At the moment Airbus is upgrading the Stage 2 tools, so MSN062 may have to wait a week or two. We doubt this will have any effect on the delivery schedule.

And finally a video of MSN028 (Emirates #9) during a cabin flight test has been posted to YouTube, Take a look by CLICKING HERE

Images Courtesy of walkbyfeet and A380Spotter

A 2010 delivery is still possible, But is likely to slip into 2011.

MSN050′s sister-ship (MSN047 Qantas #7) will be transferred to Hamburg this week.

MSN048 (Lufthansa #4) completed it’s first taxi tests on Monday and is scheduled to make a Rejected Take Off test today or Wednesday. With first flight to be around Thursday or Friday.

Emirates has made some registration changes to MSN009 and MSN028.

MSN028 was originally meant to be A6-EDJ, But will now become A6-EDI, And MSN009 was originally meant to be A6-EDI, But will now become A6-EDJ.

Image’s Courtesy of David BARRIE and Christophe RAMOS

]]> http://a380production.com/2010/04/48tt/feed/ 0 http://a380production.com/2010/04/64tf/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=64tf http://a380production.com/2010/04/64tf/#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:49:20 +0000 Oliver Gigacz http://a380production.com/?p=922 Yesterday MSN064 (Air France #6) completed Body Join and was subsequently transferred to Final Assembly. MSN064 completed Body Join in just under a month.

The next A380 to begin Body Join will be MSN066 (Lufthansa #6) when it’s last major components are Convoyed to Toulouse late this week.

MSN048 (Lufthansa #4) successfully completed it’s first engine run on Friday. Taxi tests are scheduled to start tomorrow.

MSN033 (Air France #1) made it’s first visit to Toulouse in over 14 months. The unscheduled stop was due to Iceland’s Volcano.

All Images Courtesy of Marc Schieferdecker

MSN047 (Qantas #7) – Ferry Flight – April 15th
MSN048 (Lufthansa #4) – First Flight – April 15th – Ferry Flight – April 21st
MSN056 (Emirates #14) – First Flight – April 23rd – Ferry Flight – April 29th
MSN057 (Emirates #15) – First Flight – May 25th – Ferry Flight – June 3rd
MSN052 (Air France #5) – First Flight – August 9th – Ferry Flight – September 27th

Convoy #6/2010 began late last night and is on schedule to arrive in Toulouse early on April 8th.

MSN056 can be seen behind MSN047.

MSN048 (Lufthansa #4) is now going through final checks, prior to it’s first engine run late next week.

We mentioned in our last post, That MSN002 (Private) is to be stored on the flightline until 2012. Well due the large number of A380s already on the flightline, MSN002 has been transferred to a hangar.

Images Courtesy of DigitalAirliners