Airbus A380 Production » MSN052

A380 Production Update: May 2011 (#11)

Oliver Gigacz — Wed, 18 May 2011 04:11:30 +0000

Yesterday, Airbus delivered Air France’s fifth A380 (MSN052).

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A380 Production Update: October 2010 (#5)

FabienA380 — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:52:25 +0000

Late last week we saw the roll out of MSN047 (Qantas #7) in Hamburg, this is the first roll out of a Qantas frame this year.

A valuable member of the forum has provided us with a production update:

Toulouse
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Both MSN066 (Lufthansa #6) and MSN035 (Korean Air #1) are scheduled to have their First Flights in October, with Ferry Flights to Hamburg in October for MSN066, and early November for MSN035.
MSN064 (Air France #6) is planned to fly to Hamburg this week.

In Hamburg
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MSN047 (Qantas #7), MSN056 (Emirates #14) and MSN048 (Lufthansa #4) are currently standing on the flightline.
MSN055 (Qantas #9) and MSN057 (Emirates #15) are both in flightline hangars, having some final outfitting work done. MSN055 is not painted yet, and will go in for painting when MSN050 (Qantas #8) is done.
MSN050 will finish in the paint hangars next week.

Only 5 of the 6 outfitting bays are currently being occupied. MSN064 for Air France will take spot #6 in the next few weeks.

A380 Production Update: October 2010 (#1)

Oliver Gigacz — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 03:45:19 +0000

After almost two months Air France’s fifth A380 (MSN052) has finally transferred to Hamburg for outfitting.

MSN052′s is soon to be joined by sister-ship (MSN064).

Convoy #18/2010 has been announced and is scheduled to begin on October 11.

The convoy will be carrying a center fuselage and tail plane for Qantas’s twelfth A380 (MSN074), along with a forward and rear fuselage plus a wing pair for a yet unknown MSN.

Image Courtesy of Phil Gallerand

A380 Production Update: September 2010 (#6)

Oliver Gigacz — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:31:30 +0000

Yesterday, Qantas’s tenth A380 (MSN062) performed her first and ferry flight from Airbus’s Toulouse A380 plant.

This was the first A380 ferry flight in over a month and confirms the rumors that MSN062 was to overtake MSN052 (Air France #5), MSN064 (Air France #6) and MSN065 (Singapore Airlines #13).

MSN062 only spent twenty three days on the flightline prior to her first flight, which beats the previous record (Held by MSN045) by two days.

Image Courtesy of Schiefi

A380 Production Update: August 2010 (#14) A380 Milestone

Oliver Gigacz — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:23:52 +0000

Yesterday, Air France’s sixth A380 (MSN064) performed her first flight. This was no ordinary first flight, in fact it marked a major milestone for the A380 program. MSN064 just happens to be the fiftieth A380 constructed.

All of us here at A380 Production would like to congratulate Airbus and everyone involved in the A380 program on getting to this milestone.

Both MSN064 and MSN052 (Air France #5) will be stored in Toulouse until a spot opens up in the outfitting bays in Hamburg.

Final Assembly Line – Update:

Lufthansa’s sixth A380 (MSN066) had it’s first engine installed this week. We don’t expect to see MSN066 on the flightline until the end of September.

Image Courtesy of A380Spotter

A380 Production Update: August 2010 (#5)

FabienA380 — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:16:43 +0000

Air France’s fifth A380 (MSN052) has finally performed her first flight.

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

A380 Production Update: August 2010 (#4)

Oliver Gigacz — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:30:12 +0000

A lot of people have been asking us, “what is going on with Air France’s fifth A380 (MSN052)?”.

Well to tell you the truth, we have no idea. She was rolled out in late May and has been on the flightline or the flightline hangars ever since. The latest schedule still states it will be transferred to Hamburg in August, But we wouldn’t be surprised if it slipped into September/October.

Image Courtesy of David BARRIE

A380 Production Update: July 2010 (#3)

Oliver Gigacz — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:01:11 +0000

Late last week, Emirates eleventh A380 (MSN030) was delivered to the airline at a ceremony in Toulouse.

This now makes Emirates the largest operator of the A380 with eleven SuperJumbo’s in its fleet, while Singapore Airlines has ten, Qantas has six, Air France has three and Lufthansa has one.

Late last week also saw the return of MSN052 (Air France #5) to the flightline. MSN052 had been spending the last month or two in the flightline hangars where she had some Final Assembly work done.

Images Courtesy of Jean-Claude MAURAN and David BARRIE

A380 Production Update: May 2010 (#16)

Oliver Gigacz — Mon, 31 May 2010 10:46:28 +0000

A photo has been uploaded to flickr which is giving us a good look at what is going on in the “Stage 2″ area of Final Assembly.

The three frames that can be seen in this photo are MSN065 (Singapore Airlines #13), MSN064 (Air France #6) and MSN071 (Singapore Airlines #14). All of these frames still have quite a lot of work to go, So we won’t expect to see them on the flightline for a month or two.

We can confirm that MSN057 (Emirates #15) will be the next A380 to transfer to Hamburg, as MSN052 (Air France #5) still has part of it’s APU missing and MSN055 (Qantas #9) is missing at least one escape slide.

Images Courtesy of matze-man

A380 Production Update: May 2010 (#14)

Oliver Gigacz — Thu, 27 May 2010 01:39:27 +0000

This week has seen the roll out of three A380′s from the Final Assembly Line. This is great news, as the previous roll out (MSN056) was almost two months ago.

MSN052 (Air France #5) is one of the three, and was rolled out early in week. Earlier this year MSN052 was put into short term storage at the request of Air France. But now she is back on track.

Also rolling out this week, was MSN057 (Emirates #15). If you can remember earlier in the year MSN057 spent a few weeks on the flightline, while waiting for a spot in second stage Final Assembly.

And last but not least, MSN055 (Qantas #9) which was rolled out late yesterday evening.

MSN055 is the frame on the right.

All Images are Courtesy of DigitalAirliners.com
P.S. There will be more detailed information on each of these frames next week.