Supplying The World With The Latest A380 News
Yesterday saw the delivery of Emirates’s fourteenth A380 (MSN056).
The delivery flight was a direct service to Dubai, with EK7380 as the flight number. Emirates has registered the airframe as”A6-EDN” and is expecting “A6-EDO” (MSN057) later this month.
Image Courtesy of Phil Gallerand
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:
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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.
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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.
Qantas’s twelfth A380 (MSN074) has been confirmed as the new frame being carried on Convoy #17/2010.
The forward and rear fuselage, as well as the wings were the components convoyed. The center fuselage and tail plane are scheduled to arrive in a few weeks on Convoy #18/2010.
Earlier this week Singapore Airlines thirteenth A380 (MSN065) performed it’s first flight. MSN065 has since been transferred to Hamburg for outfitting.
Two Emirates frames can also be seen in the picture above, MSN056 and MSN057 which both completed outfitting yesterday.
Images Courtesy of Aranes380 and Linie 9
Emirates’s fifteenth A380 (MSN057) performed her first flight on June 11th, This also happened to be her ferry flight to Hamburg.
MSN046 (Emirates #12) has been rolled out of the Hamburg outfitting hangars and is now situated on the flightline next to MSN041 (Lufthansa #2). Delivery is currently scheduled for July 23rd.
Image Courtesy of David BARRIE
Yesterday, MSN057 (Emirates #15) performed her first taxi tests.
A Rejected Take Off will performed early next week, With her first flight to follow to shortly.
In other news, MSN009 and MSN030 (Emirates) are likely be delivered frin Toulouse instead of Hamburg, Which is Emirate’s usual delivery port. We are yet to confirm this.
Update: We can now confirm MSN030 WILL be delivered in Toulouse. MSN009 is still To Be Confirmed.
Image Courtesy of Yannick Delamarre
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
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.
