Tomorrow, Lufthansa’s fifth A380 (MSN061) will perform it’s customer performance flight, and then ferry to Frankfurt on it’s delivery flight, two days later.
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Yesterday, Lufthansa’s fifth A380 (MSN061) performed a rejected take off test from Airbus’s Hamburg facility.
Cabin test flights are scheduled to begin over the next few days, and are to continue of the coming weeks. Delivery is currently on scheduled for early February.
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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.
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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.
Air France’s fifth A380 (MSN052) has finally performed her first flight.
First flight occurred yesterday. She is now on the flightline, waiting for a spot to open up in Hamburg.
Updates from Hamburg:
Air France’s fourth A380 (MSN049) was delivered on Thursday, exactly one year after she was convoyed to Toulouse
Emirates’s twelfth A380 (MSN046) is planned for delivery on Thursday.
Emirates’s thirteenth A380 (MSN042) has been spotted fully painted on the Hamburg flightline. Delivery is expected in September.
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Tuesday saw Lufthansa’s fifth A380 (MSN061) perform it’s first flight.
This puts Lufthansa in fourth place of number of A380s flying. Emirates have fifteen, Singapore Airlines have twelve, Qantas have nine, Lufthansa have five and Air France have four.
Thursday saw the roll out Air France’s sixth A380 (MSN064).
MSN064 took four months to complete Final Assembly with all major componets arriving in Toulouse by late March. First flight is currently scheduled for early September. Delivery to Air France will be in Q2 2011.
Today, Lufthansa’s fifth A380 (MSN061) will perform her first flight, after a months long stay on the Toulouse flightline.
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