Yesterday, Airbus delivered Singapore Airlines’ fifteenth A380 (MSN076) at a ceremony in Toulouse.
It is the first A380 delivery of the year, and the first to Singapore Airlines since September.
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Earlier today, Singapore Airlines’ fifteenth A380 (MSN076) was ferried to Toulouse in preparation for delivery.
She will carry airline registration 9V-SKP.
This frame will allow Singapore Airlines to begin A380 services on its Frankfurt and New York route (SQ026).
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Yesterday, Singapore Airline’s fifteenth A380 (MSN076) was transferred to Hamburg for outfitting.
This is the airline’s first A380 to be transferred this year, with the fourteenth frame (MSN071) arriving in November 2010.
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Yesterday, Singapore Airline’s fifteenth A380 (MSN076) performed her first flight.
After a few hours of flight testing, she returned to Toulouse. She is scheduled to be transferred to Hamburg next week.
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Late last week, Singapore Airlines’ fifteenth A380 (MSN076) began taxi tests.
First flight is expected later this week.
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Yesterday, Singapore Airlines fifteenth A380 (MSN076) completed final assembly.
MSN076 took twenty nine weeks to complete assmebly. Which is two weeks quicker than the previous Singapore Airlines frame, but eleven more than the previous Rolls Royce frame.
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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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