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A380 Production Update: January 2012 (#5)

Oliver Gigacz — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:35:15 +0000

Qantas announced that the A380 severely damaged in November 2010 (MSN014) will return to service in March.

On November 4th 2010, Qantas Flight 32, en route from Singapore to Sydney, suffered an uncontained engine failure in engine number two, and was forced to return to Singapore.

Repair work began in May 2011 and is expected to be completed by February. The A380, Qantas’ first, will then go through a series of test flights before returning to service in late March.

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A380 Production Update: December 2011 (#8)

Oliver Gigacz — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:43:38 +0000

Qantas’s twelfth A380 (MSN074) will be delivered tomorrow at a ceremony in Toulouse.

She now wears airline registration VH-OQL and has been named Phyllis Arnott, after the first Australian woman to receive a commercial pilot’s license.

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A380 Production Update: November 2011 (#14)

Oliver Gigacz — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:50:24 +0000

Yesterday, Airbus delivered Qantas’ eleventh A380 (MSN063) at a ceremony in Toulouse.

Her delivery flight is routing Toulouse to Sydney via Singapore. MSN063′s sister ship, MSN074, is currently in Toulouse for final testing before delivery in early December.

Once both are in service, they will allow Qantas to run daily Melbourne to Los Angeles flights.

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A380 Production Update: November 2011 (#6)

Oliver Gigacz — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:35:29 +0000

Yesterday, Qantas’s eleventh A380 (MSN063) performed a check flight, prior to delivery next week.

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A380 Production Update: November 2011 (#3)

Oliver Gigacz — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:40:10 +0000

Yesterday, Qantas’ eleventh A380 (MSN063) was ferried to Toulouse in preparation for delivery.

Qantas is expecting delivery late next week.

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A380 Production Update: November 2011 (#1)

Oliver Gigacz — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:00:38 +0000

Yesterday, Qantas’ eleventh A380 (MSN063) began cabin flight testing.

Qantas will take delivery of the frame later in the month.

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A380 Production Update: October 2011 (#15)

Oliver Gigacz — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:36:42 +0000

Qantas’ eleventh A380 (MSN063) is expected to begin “post-outfitting” taxi testing later this week.

Qantas have confirmed they will take delivery of MSN063 in late November.

Once in airline service, she will carry registration VH-OQK and bear the name John/Reginald Duigen.

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A380 Production Update: August 2011 (#10)

Oliver Gigacz — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:18:12 +0000

Today, Qantas announced it was deferring six of its ten remaining A380 orders, until 2018-2021.

The frames that will be affected are numbers fifteen through twenty, which will now be delivered at the end of the decade.

To date, Qantas has had ten A380s delivered, with four more expected within the next sixteen months. These four frames are currently in production, and have the following status…

Qantas #11 – MSN063: Currently in Hamburg, being outfitted. Delivery scheduled for Q4 2011.
Qantas #12 – MSN074: Currently in Hamburg, being outfitted. Delivery scheduled for Q4 2011.
Qantas #13 – MSN091: Expected to enter the assembly line later this year. Delivery scheduled for Q3 2012.
Qantas #14 – MSN102: Expected to enter the assembly line later this year. Delivery scheduled for Q3 2012.

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A380 Production Update: May 2011 (#18)

Oliver Gigacz — Sat, 28 May 2011 06:27:43 +0000

Work will begin next week, on the repair of Qantas’ first A380 (MSN014), which suffered an uncontained engine failure on a Singapore to Sydney service in November last year.

Repair work will be done in Singapore, and is estimated to cost over AUD$100,000,000.

The frame is currently going under weekly preservation checks, which includes rotating the tires and checking the avionics. The windows have also been covered, to prevent interior fading.

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A380 Production Update: April 2011 (#8)

Oliver Gigacz — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:33:46 +0000

Earlier this week, Qantas’s twelfth A380 (MSN074) performed it’s first flight.

After a few hours of testing over Toulouse, MSN074 flew on to Hamburg, where she landed in the early afternoon.

Airbus will delivery this frame in Q4 2011.