Airbus A380 Production » MSN055

A380 Production Update: January 2011 (#6)

Oliver Gigacz — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:11:53 +0000

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).

Image Courtesy of TLaurent

A380 Production Update: November 2010 (#9)

Oliver Gigacz — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:46:48 +0000

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

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: July 2010 (#8)

Oliver Gigacz — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:42:30 +0000

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.

Image Courtesy of matze-man

A380 Production Update: July 2010 (#7)

Oliver Gigacz — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:37:12 +0000

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

A380 Production Update: July 2010 (#6)

Oliver Gigacz — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:13:08 +0000

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.

Image Courtesy of matze-man

A380 Production Update: June 2010 (#3)

Oliver Gigacz — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:39:20 +0000

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.

Image Courtesy of matze-man

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.

A380 Production Update: May 2010 (#8)

Oliver Gigacz — Sat, 15 May 2010 06:49:59 +0000

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)