Today, Airbus delivered Korean Air’s fourth A380 (MSN068).
This is the fourteenth A380 delivery this year, and the fifty-fifth overall.
MSN068 will wear HL7614 as her commercial registration.
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Yesterday, Korean Air’s fourth A380 (MSN068) was transferred to Toulouse, in preparation for delivery.
Delivery is currently scheduled for early September.
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Yesterday, Korean Air’s fourth A380 (MSN068) performed her first cabin test flight.
This is another step closer to delivery, which takes place in September.
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Earlier this week, Korean Air’s fourth A380 (MSN068) completed the outfitting stage of production.
With painting and outfitting now complete, she is just over a month away from delivery to Korean Air.
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Yesterday, Korean Air’s fourth A380 (MSN068) performed its first flight.
MSN068 flew direct from Toulouse, landing on Hamburgs RWY05, in the early afternoon.
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Last week, Korean Air’s fourth A380 (MSN068) began engine tests.
MSN068 will begin taxi tests early this week, and will hopefully perform her first flight late in the week.
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In our previous post, we mentioned that Emirates sixteenth A380 (MSN077) has been spotted on the flightline, complete but without engines.
We can now confirm that MSN077 actually does have her engines installed, and was rolled out of Final Assembly on the 11th February.
This means MSN077 completed assembly in just thirteen weeks, which beats the previous record by almost a month.
This also means MSN077 has overtaken MSN063, MSN074 (Qantas #11 and #12) and MSN076 (Singapore Airlines #15). All three of these frames have Rolls Royce engines. We have it under good authority that after the QF32 incident last November, Airbus delayed production of all Rolls Royce frames for a couple of weeks. This would answer why we are seeing both MSN068 and MSN077 (Both Engine Alliance Engine Frames) a lot earlier than we orignally expected.
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