Yesterday, Qantas’s took delivery of it’s eighth A380 (MSN055).
MSN055 (VH-OQI) departed Toulouse for Sydney as QF6024, arriving into Sydney the following day at 19:50 (local time).
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Yesterday, Korean Air’s first A380 (MSN035) performed her first flight.
MSN035 flew direct to Hamburg, and arrived at around 16:00 local time. Outfitting will not begin immediately, she will have to wait for Lufthansa’s fifth A380 (MSN061) to finish first.
We have had a lot of questions about Qantas’s upcoming A380 deliveries, to see if they have had upgraded Trent 900 engines installed. We can confirm that Qantas’s next four A380s, MSN047, MSN050, MSN055 and MSN062 do have upgraded Trent 900′s and will not require a refurbishment or replacement.
Image Courtesy of Guillaume Besnard
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.
Just a quick update to finish the week off:
Qantas’s ninth A380 (MSN055) finally made it’s first flight yesterday, after a long seven week wait on the flightline.
MSN055 is now in Hamburg and will soon be towed to an outfitting hangar.
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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
Yesterday, Qantas’s ninth A380 (MSN055) performed her first engine tests after a near one and a half month wait on the flightline.
First flight is scheduled for July 12th. Her first flight will also be her ferry flight to Hamburg.
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There have been a couple of small changes to the flight schedule…
MSN050 (Qantas #8) is now scheduled to ferry to Hamburg on June 23.
MSN055 (Qantas #9) is now scheduled to perform her first and ferry flight on July 2.
Both of these frames will now be delivered in Q1 2011.
A couple of online news sites are reporting that MSN009 (Emirates #10) has been delivered. We cannot find any records of this, so we are treating it as a rumor. If this is true, MSN009 would be the 30th A380 delivered.
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