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A380 Production Update: March 2010 (#1)

2010, 2011, Air France, China Southern, Convoy, Emirates, Final Assembly Hall, Hamburg, Korean Air, Lufthansa, MSN002, MSN009, MSN028, MSN030, MSN031, MSN035, MSN038, MSN041, MSN042, MSN043, MSN044, MSN046, MSN047, MSN048, MSN049, MSN050, MSN051, MSN052, MSN055, MSN056, MSN057, MSN058, MSN061, MSN062, MSN065, MSN066, MSN069, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Toulouse | Posted by Oliver Gigacz

Mar 01 2010

March is here (Already) so we thought it would be a good idea to give you an overview of the current production line. So here it is…

Toulouse Production:
MSN002 (Private) – Currently in Refitting Hangar.
MSN042 (Emirates #13) – In Second Second Stage of Final Assembly and is Scheduled to Be Rolled Out in late March.
MSN047 (Qantas #7) – Engines Have Been Re Installed and Should Roll Out this week.
MSN048 (Lufthansa #4) – Completed and will be Rolled Out this week.
MSN050 (Qantas #8) – Being Stored in a Flightline Hangar until May.
MSN052 (Air France #5) – Completed and will be Rolled Out this week.
MSN055 (Qantas #9) – First Stage of Final Assembly. Parts of Final Assembly Will be done in a Flightline Hangar.
MSN056 (Emirates #14) – Second Stage of Final Assembly.
MSN057 (Emirates #15) – Waiting for slot in Second Stage of Final Assembly.
MSN058 (Singapore Airlines #12) – Waiting for Slot in First Stage of Final Assembly.
MSN061 (Lufthansa #5) – First Stage of Final Assembly.
MSN062 (Qantas #10) – First Stage of Final Assembly.
MSN065 (Singapore Airlines #13) – Body Join has Begun and is Scheduled to take 10 days.

Hamburg Production:
MSN009 (Emirates #9) – Delivery Scheduled for May.
MSN028 (Emirates #10) – Delivery Scheduled for June.
MSN030 (Emirates #11) – Delivery Scheduled for July.
MSN038 (Lufthansa #1) – Delivery Scheduled for 10th May.
MSN041 (Lufthansa #2) – Delivery Scheduled for June.
MSN043 (Air France #3) – Delivery Scheduled for April.
MSN044 (Lufthansa #3) – Delivery Scheduled for Q3 2010.
MSN046 (Emirates #12) – Delivery Scheduled for August.
MSN049 (AIr France #4) – Delivery Scheduled for Q3 2010,
MSN051 (Singapore Airlines #11) – Delivery Scheduled for Late March.

Convoy’s:
The next new frames to be Convoyed to Toulouse are scheduled to be.
MSN031 (China Southern #1)
MSN066 (Lufthansa #6)
MSN069 (Lufthansa #7)
MSN035 (Korean Air #1)

First Stage of Final Assembly = Installation of Electronic Components that Control the Aircraft and Installation of Fuel Tanks.

Second Stage of Final Assembly = Installation of Engines, Belly Fairing and all other Facilities in and outside the Aircraft.

Roll Out = Moved from the Final Assembly Line to the Flightline.

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A380 Production Update: February 2010 (#7)

2010, Air France, Emirates, Final Assembly Hall, Hamburg, Lufthansa, MSN030, MSN041, MSN042, MSN044, MSN046, MSN047, MSN048, MSN049, MSN050, MSN052, MSN056, MSN057, Qantas, Toulouse | Posted by Oliver Gigacz

Feb 15 2010

MSN057 (Emirates #15) has finished it’s first part of Final Assembly which included having The flaps installed, Some Belly Fairing, the APU and many “Under the Hood” parts.

MSN057 is currently sitting on the flightline waiting to switch spaces with MSN048 (Lufthansa #4). MSN048 should be rolled out of the Final Assembly Line late this week.

The final parts for MSN057 arrived in Toulouse on the 12th November and has only taken 92 days to get to this stage. This is a dramatic increase in time for Body Join and the first stages of Final Assembly.

This also means the production in Toulouse is speeding up but over in Hamburg, Outfitting is staying very much the same.

We expect by late April that MSN042 (Emirates), MSN047 (Qantas), MSN050 (Qantas), MSN052 (Air France) and possibly MSN056 (Emirates) to be completed.

But at the same time all the Outfitting slots in Hamburg will be already be occupied by…

MSN030 (Emirates), MSN041 (Lufthansa), MSN044 (Lufthansa), MSN046 (Emirates) MSN048 (Lufthansa) and MSN049 (Air France).

This means that Outfitting must be dramatically increased to get the twenty odd scheduled A380s for 2010 delivery to actually being delivered this year.

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A380 Production Update: February 2010 (#1)

2010, Air France, Convoy, Emirates, Final Assembly Hall, Hamburg, Lufthansa, MSN041, MSN042, MSN052, MSN056, MSN058, MSN065, Singapore Airlines, Toulouse | Posted by Oliver Gigacz

Feb 02 2010

Another one of our forum members has visited Toulouse and has done the A380 factory tour. Here is the report.

MSN056 (Emirates #14)

Stand L55 (30-A)
Pylons installed.
No APU and no Belly Fairings.

MSN052 (Air France #5)

Stand L53 (30-B)
No Engines Installed and None Noticed Around
APU and Engine pylons installed, no belly fairing yet.
HF-and VOR-antennas seem to be installed, aswell as the camera inside the Vertical tail plane.

MSN042 (Emirates #13)

Stand L51 (30-C)
All flaps and slats seem to be installed.
Engine Pylons installed. But no Engines
No APU and no Belly fairings yet.
Vertical tail plane looks untouched, So HF and VOR-antennas might be missing aswell as the Camera.

MSN041 (Lufthansa #2) was not seen which means it should now in Hamburg for outfitting.

Convoy #2 was spotted eariler today and we can glady confirm that the forward fuselage is MSN065 (Singapore Airlines #13). The other pieces of the convoy are for MSN058 (Singapore Airlines #12).

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A380 Production Update: January 2010 (#6)

2009, Convoy, Emirates, Final Assembly Hall, Hamburg, Korean Air, MSN009, MSN025, MSN028, MSN030, MSN042, MSN046, MSN056, MSN057, MSN058, Singapore Airlines, Toulouse | Posted by Oliver Gigacz

Jan 14 2010

Emirates have announced there A380 delivery schedule for 2010 and they will get eight A380s this year. They will be…

MSN025 – A6-EDH – 18 January 2010
MSN009 – A6-EDI – May 2010
MSN028 – A6-EDJ – June 2010
MSN030 – A6-EDK – July 2010
MSN046 – A6-EDL – August 2010
MSN042 – A6-EDM – September 2010
MSN056 – A6-EDN – October 2010
MSN057 – A6-EDO – November 2010

With the arrival of MSN058 (Singapore Airlines), Korean Airs first A380 (MSN035) is pushed back for a delivery to Q2 of 2011.

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A380 Production Update: December 2009 (#10)

2009, 2010, Air France, Emirates, Final Assembly Hall, Lufthansa, MSN027, MSN041, MSN042, MSN046, MSN049, MSN052, MSN056, Qantas, Toulouse | Posted by Oliver Gigacz

Dec 10 2009

A surprise to us today was that MSN052 (Air France #5) has turned up on the flightline and is looking much the same as MSN042 (Emirates #13). It looks like she has just finished body join and awaiting a spot in the Final Assembly Line. So we now have two A380s waiting for spots in the FAL.

There is one space free in the FAL at the moment and another to open up shortly when MSN046 (Emirates #11) is transferred to the flightline.

There is another possibility that MSN056 (Emirates #14) has taken MSN041’s (Lufthansa #2 – On Flightline) spot in the FAL which would mean that either MSN042 or MSN052 will have to wait for MSN049 (Air France #4) to exit the FAL which is not scheduled until January/February.

We we will have more info on the MSN052 matter in the next 24 hours so stay tuned.

In other news with MSN027 (Qantas #5) will be delivered either Friday or Saturday.

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A380 Production Update: November 2009 (#6)

2009, 2010, Emirates, MSN056, Toulouse | Posted by Oliver Gigacz

Nov 09 2009

Well in the last week the tail for MSN056 (Emirates) has arrived in Toulouse. MSN056 will now enter body join before entering Final Assembly one month after entering Body Join.

Images Courtesy of jacquesaero

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A380 Production Update: October 2009 (#23)

2009, 2010, Emirates, Hamburg, MSN007, MSN009, MSN023, MSN025, MSN028, MSN030, MSN042, MSN046, MSN056, MSN057, Toulouse | Posted by Oliver Gigacz

Oct 29 2009

The first pictures of Convoy #15 have arrived and of course it is MSN056 and MSN057 both for Emirates. MSN056 will enter body join first as the rest of MSN057 will come on Convoy #16, most likely in two weeks time.

Emirates now have ten A380s in the late production stages (MSN007,MSN009,MSN023,MSN025,MSN028,MSN030,MSN042,MSN046,MSN056,MSN057). This means by the end of 2010 Emirates will have 15 A380s in service.

Images are Courtesy of Aranes380

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A380 Production Update: October 2009 (#22)

2009, 2010, Air France, Convoy, Emirates, Final Assembly Hall, First Flight, Lufthansa, MSN007, MSN023, MSN025, MSN027, MSN029, MSN030, MSN033, MSN040, MSN041, MSN043, MSN044, MSN046, MSN056, MSN057, Qantas, Toulouse | Posted by Oliver Gigacz

Oct 27 2009

This week a lot of delays have been announced in both sides of the production of the Airbus A380 (Toulouse and Hamburg).

First of all MSN041 the second for Lufhansa was scheduled to roll out of the Final Assembly Line this week and make its first flight around late November. But now we will not see MSN041 roll out of the Final Assembly Line until late November and is now scheduled to make its first flight on the 22nd December 2009 and then ferry to Hamburg on the 6th January 2009. This could be a problem for Lufthansa as they will not get MSN041 till unleast early June 2010. MSN041 was orignally sheduled for delivery on the 30th April 2010.

MSN030 (Emirates) has been delayed just over a week for a first and ferry flight. MSN030 will make its first flight on the 26th November and ferry to Hamurg on the 2nd December.

I am getting from various sources as well that other MSNs such as MSN044 (Lufthansa) and MSN046 (Emirates) will be getting delayed as well.

In Hamburg, MSN007 for Emirates will now be delivered in December. MSN007 was originally scheduled to be delivered in late November.

MSN025 (Emirates) and MSN043 (Air France) have now been delayed until January 2010. They were also scheduled for delivery in December.

A380s that are still scheduled to be delivered this year are MSN033 (Air France) this week, MSN007 (Emirates), MSN023 (Emirates),MSN027 (Qantas), MSN029 (Qantas), MSN040 (Air France). This would only make 12 A380s delivered this year. This would be the same number as last year.

But finally on a good note we can confirm that Convoy #14 was MSN056 (Emirates) and that Convoy #15 is MSN056 and MSN057 (Emirates)

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