Yesterday, Airbus delivered Qantas’s tenth A380 (MSN062).
She is routing Toulouse-Sydney via Singapore, as QF6024. When she enters service, she will carry VH-OQJ as her registration.
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Yesterday, Qantas’s tenth A380 (MSN062) was transferred from Hamburg to Toulouse.
MSN062 spent a couple of hours circling around Hamburg, before heading south to Toulouse. She landed at approx 16:14 (local time).
Delivery to Qantas is currently scheduled for later this week, but of course this is subject to change.
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Last Friday, Qantas’s tenth A380 (MSN062) was rolled out of the outfitting hangars fully painted and furnished.
Delivery to Qantas is on schedule for March this year.
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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:
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.
Late last week Qantas’s tenth A380 (MSN062) began taxi tests.
MSN062 is scheduled to perform her first first on Monday, but will not be transfered to Hamburg for a number of weeks. This is due to the backlog that the Hamburg production team is facing.
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Finally after thirty one weeks in Final Assembly, Qantas’s tenth A380 (MSN062) has been moved to the flightline.
Most of us expecting MSN062 to roll out over a month ago, and perform her first flight around now. But with this delay we won’t expect to see MSN062 in the air until the middle of September.
Delivery to Qantas is still on track for March 2011.
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