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A380 Production Update: January 2012 (#8)

Oliver Gigacz — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:51:54 +0000

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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A380 Production Update: January 2012 (#3)

Oliver Gigacz — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:15:38 +0000

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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A380 Production Update: June 2011 (#22)

Oliver Gigacz — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:30:30 +0000

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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A380 Production Update: June 2011 (#19)

Oliver Gigacz — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:50:33 +0000

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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A380 Production Update: June 2011 (#10)

Oliver Gigacz — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:38:29 +0000

Late last week, Singapore Airlines’ fifteenth A380 (MSN076) began taxi tests.

First flight is expected later this week.

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A380 Production Update: May 2011 (#14)

Oliver Gigacz — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:03:51 +0000

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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A380 Production Update: February 2011 (#7)

Oliver Gigacz — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:41:17 +0000

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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A380 Production Update: February 2011 (#3)

Oliver Gigacz — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:39:29 +0000

Singapore Airlines fifteenth A380 (MSN076) has been spotted on the flightline looking complete, but engine-less.

We have since confirmed that the engines originally for MSN076 have now been used for a Singapore Airlines frame already in Hamburg.

MSN076 will re enter the final assembly line later this week, to have new engines installed.

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A380 Production Update: November 2010 (#2)

Oliver Gigacz — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:53:44 +0000

The tail for Singapore Airlines fifteenth A380 (MSN076) has arrived in Toulouse, aboard the Airbus “Beluga”.

The tail will be joined to the rest of the body this week.

Delivery to Singapore Airlines is scheduled for Q3 2011.

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A380 Production Update: October 2010 (#7)

Oliver Gigacz — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:28:41 +0000

Convoy #19/2010 has been announced and is scheduled to begin on October 25th.

The convoy will be carrying a complete frame with the center fuselage and tailplane for Singapore Airlines fifteenth A380 (MSN076) and the forward fuselage, rear fuselage and wing pair for an unknown MSN.

We expect the new MSN to be Emirates’s sixteenth A380 (MSN060), as it is the last Q3 2011 frame to be transfered to Toulouse.