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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.
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)
