Yesterday, Airbus delivered Lufthansa’s sixth A380 (MSN066).
MSN066 is the forty fifth A380 delivered.
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Lufthansa’s sixth A380 (MSN066) has now finished outfitting, and is currently sitting on the Hamburg flightline.
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Yesterday Lufthansa’s sixth A380 (MSN066) was transferred to Hamburg.
After arriving MSN066 was immediately towed into a free outfitting hangar.
Delivery to Lufthansa is currently scheduled for Q2 2011.
Early on Monday morning Lufthansa’s sixth A380 (MSN066) performed her first flight.
MSN066 returned to Toulouse after a three a hour flight. She will be transfered to Hamburg later this week.
Some new production numbers have been released, including the first frames for Air Austral, British Airways, Etihad and Qatar Airways.
British Airways – MSN095
Etihad - MSN114
Qatar Airways – MSN127
Air Austral - MSN149
Image Courtesy of Schiefi
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.
Last Monday finally saw the roll out of a new A380 frame. MSN066 is Lufthansa’s sixth A380 and took only twenty weeks to complete final assembly.
Our good friend “Schiefi” has managed to capture a great shot of China Southern’s first A380 (MSN031). MSN031 is still going through Body Join, but this should be completed by the end of the week.
Images Courtesy of Schiefi
There has been very little news in the past week, but we do expect to see roll out of Lufthansa’s sixth (MSN066) and Singapore Airlines fourteenth A380 (MSN071) over the next few days.
