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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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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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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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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.
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Yesterday, Airbus delivered Qantas’s tenth A380 (MSN062).
She is routing Toulouse-Sydney via Singapore, as QF6024. When she enters service, she will carry VH-OQJ as her registration.
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Yesterday, Qantas’s eleventh A380 (MSN063) performed her first flight.
After spending a few hours testing over Toulouse, she flew onto Hamburg.
Delivery to the airline is scheduled for Q3 2011.
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Last Friday saw the roll out of two frames, from the final assembly line. Qantas’s twelfth A380 (MSN074), and Emirate’s seventeenth A380 (MSN080).
MSN074 took twenty two weeks to complete assembly, while MSN080 took just thirteen. Both of these frames are expected to be transferred to Hamburg, in mid April.
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