Wednesday 27/05/2009 (09:25-22:00L)

May’s second visit, to what is sadly showing increasing signs of becoming a storage facility. 

The 4 remaining deferred Kingfisher Airlines A340-500s (MSNs 0886, 0894, 0902 & 0912) were still parked in the open, their fates uncertain although one for HiFly/Arik Air has subsequently been delivered. 

One of the two stored A340-600s for Iberia (MSN0960) has rejoined production, being seen complete with engines on the flight line.  The other (MSN0993), however, remains in deep-storage on the A380 apron. 

The 2 potential KC-45As (MSNs 0925, and 996) remain in open storage, engineless.  On the plus side, -200MRTT MSN0980 was not seen, so is hopefully back in production, and the first example for the AirTanker consortium for the RAF was seen – with engines – on the production flightline. 

There are now signs of deferrals for airline-destined 330s with the recently assembled MSN1031 parked outside wearing a coat of tell-tale yellow storage primer.  Another, fresh off the FAL, MSN1034 was noted being painted in the open-air with the same protective coating.  This was originally allocated to AirComet, as was MSN1042 which was seen on the FAL and is presumably destined for the same treatment on rollout. 

A single A320, MSN3882 was noted also painted for storage?  Iberia ntu?  On the positive, one of the two long-stored 320s for Kingfisher, MSN3621, was noted at the delivery centre still wearing basic Kingfisher colours so is hopefully about to start earning its living. 

Happily, there were no signs of storage over at the 380 plant, with a record 5 aircraft seen on the production flight line.  2 examples each for Air France (MSN0040 & 0043) and Emirates (MSN0007 & 0028) plus one for Qantas (MSN0047).  Another, MSN0021, the 7th for Singapore Airlines was also seen over at the ZIEGLER DC awaiting its delivery flight.  

Being on foot and taking an A380 tour with Concorde No.1 option to provide access to the plant, recording of the various movements is not as complete as usual.  Apologies for this. 

Thanks to Malcom Baldry for the kind use of his 9-seater which helped me get to places I would not have been able to reach on foot.  

Shots at:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/a380spotter/sets/72157618896778606/ 

 

 

H. ZIEGLER DC from Parc Auto P3: panoramic 27/05/2009

 

 

 

 

Rear of the ZIEGLER DC 27/05/2009

 

 

 

 

A380-841 MSN0021 F-WWSQ SQ

 

 

 

 

A330-223 MSN1034 F-WWKS A7?

 

 

 

 

A380 flight line from the staff car park 1 27/05/2009

 

The usual disclaimers apply: Brackets indicate assumed reg. from previous intelligence.  No brackets = positive sighting.  All times are French local.

All frames parked-up, unless noted.
 

Toulouse: Blagnac – Wednesday 27/05/2009 (09:25-22:00L)  

AIRBUS PLANT

A300

0992  330-243  A9C-KJ  Gulf Air.  All white colours, including engines. Engine covers on.  Parked at rear of the ZIEGLER DC.   

238     300B4-203  F-WUAB  Parked outside A300 hall in prototype colours.

655/1  300-608ST  F-GSTA  Departed 16:15L        

751/2  300-608ST  F-GSTB  Departed 10:05L, landing back 19:22L
765/3  300-608ST  F-GSTC  Arrived 11:10L      

776/4  300-608ST  F-GSTD  Not seen.  
796/5  300-608ST  F-GSTF  Arrived 17:35L   

A320 family
0001  320-200  F-WWBA  Airbus.  Not seen.

 

0659  320-232  F-WWDB  DLR, testbed.  Not seen.

 

3621  320-232  F-WWIK  Kingfisher Airlines, full colours EXCEPT for tail logo.  Parked on main apron at St. Martin du Touch.  Briefly positioned at Station Carburant, then back to main St. Martin apron.

3748  320-232  F-WWBQ  (Kingfisher Airlines), basic colours – all-white fuselage and engines, with solid red tail.  Parked on main apron at St. Martin du Touch. 

3882  320-2  F-WWIP  All yellow (storage) primer.  Parked on main apron at St. Martin du Touch. Iberia, ntu?

3891  320-214  F-WWDC  SATA Internacional, full NEW colours. Named ‘DIASPORA’.  Parked at H. ZIEGLER DC, terminal-side.  Departed on acceptance flight at 09:39.  Later seen back in original position.  

3896  320-214  A9C-BAT  All white colours.  Parked at rear of the ZIEGLER DC.  Air Comores International (D6-CAT) ntu, now believed to be for Bahrain Air.  Taxied to BIKINI for engine runs at 10:00L.  Noted again towing into ZIEGLER DC hangar at 17:40. Note: unusually it carried both its MSN and delivery registration.

3915  320-214  F-WWDC  GoAir, full colours.  Parked on main apron at St. Martin du Touch.   To become VT-WAL.

3921  320-216  (F-WWBK)  Air One/Alitalia, full (new) colours with ‘TG’ on tail = EI-DTG.   Parked on main apron at St. Martin du Touch.  

3931  320-214  F-WWBT  All white, with trailing cone now attached to tail.  Believed to be for Air Comores International as D6-CAU.  Parked on main apron at St. Martin du Touch.

3933  320-214  F-WWBU  Iberworld, full colours.  Combined first flight and departure for XFW.  Traditional fly past on departure at 12:45L

3939  320-214  F-WWDR  Jazeera Airways, full colours.  At Station Carburant.

3941  320-232  F-WWDS  China Southern Airlines, full colours.  At Station Carburant.

3943  320-232  F-WWDT  IndiGo, full colours.  At Station Carburant.

3949  320-214  (F-WW??)  Standard (green) primer and all grey tail.  Parked on main apron at St. Martin du Touch.

3952  320-216  F-WWBI  All standard (green) primer, including tail.  Noted being rolled out of hangar and into paint hall at 19:45L.  For Iberia?

 

Additional frames which could not be read off due to position were:

3883  320-214  (F-WWIU/CS-TNR)  TAP Portugal, full colours. Seen in closed hangar at the ZIEGLER DC.

3919  320-214  (F-WWBH)  Jazeera Airways, full colours.  Parked on main apron at St. Martin du Touch.  Noted being towed to position at ZIEGLER DC, terminal-side at 21:20L 

3935  320-214  (F-WW??) Shenzhen Airlines, full colours.  Parked on main apron at St. Martin du Touch.  Entered BIKINI for engine runs 21:15L.  Still there as we departed at 22:00L.

3937  320-232  (F-WWDQ)  China Eastern Airlines, full colours.  Parked on main apron at St. Martin du Touch.

3954  320-214  (F-WW??)  Aeroflot. Tail only seen.  Appeared on main apron at St. Martin du Touch around 18:00L

    

Bits and pieces:

Several bits of frame on apron alongside Beluga unpack, but unfortunately these could not be read due to the haze.

 

 

A330/340 family
0001  340-311  F-WWAI  Airbus.  Parked on development test flight line.

0360  340-642  F-WWCA  Airbus.   Noted in large re-work hangar in the ADER complex. 

 

0856  340-642(X)  (F-WWTJ) (Etihad Airways) Fuselage section (aft of wing) seen on low-loader outside Aero Technique Espace hangar.  Still in Etihad colours. 

0886  340-542  F-WWTG  Kingfisher Airlines, full colours.  Engine socks, doors, cockpit and undercarriage legs well taped-up against the elements.  Parked on J.L.LAGARDERE (A380) apron.  Continued storage.

0894  340-542  F-WWTH  All white, with red (ex-Kingfisher Airlines, i.e. no logos) engines.  Parked on midfield apron.  

0902  340-542  F-WWTJ  Kingfisher Airlines, full colours. Parked on midfield apron, stored.

0912  340-542  CS-TFX  Arik Air, full colours.  Parked on midfield apron, engine covers on.

0925  330-203  F-WWKB  Low visibility scheme, engineless.  Doors, cockpit and undercarriage legs well taped-up against the elements.  Parked at J.L.LAGARDERE (A380) apron.  Continued storage.

0960  340-642  F-WWCG  Iberia, full colours.  Parked on l’aubrevouir, terminal-side.  Ex. storage on St. Martin du Touch apron.  

0993  340-642  ‘F-WWKC’ – typo for F-WWCK  Yellow storage primer with Iberia tail colours.  Parked at J.L. LAGARDERE (A380) apron.  Continued storage. 

0996  330-203  F-WWKT  All storage (yellow) primer colours, engineless.  Parked at J.L.LAGARDERE (A380) apron.  Continued storage.

0999  330-243  F-WWYV  Afriqiyah Airways, full colours.  Parked midfield by ADER General Finishing hangars. To become 5A-ONF.

1002  330-223  F-WWKP  AirComet, full colours.  Parked at l’aubrevouir, plant-side.  Noted landing after test flight 15:39L 

1011  330-243  N279AY US Airways, full colours.  Parked at rear of the ZIEGLER DC. 

1014  330-243  F-WWKU  Aeroflot, full colours.  Parked at l’aubrevouir, plant-side.  To become VQ-BBE.

1015  330-343E  9V-STH Singapore Airlines, full colours.  Parked at rear of the ZIEGLER DC.  Engine covers on.

1016  330-243  N969AV  AVIANCA Columbia, full colours.  Parked at rear of the ZIEGLER DC  

1017  340-642  F-WWCS  Iberia, full colours. ‘KZI’ on tail = EC-KZI.  Parked on l’aubrevouir, terminal-side.

1018  330-343E  F-WWYJ  Swiss International Air Lines, full colours.  Parked at l’aubrevouir, terminal-side.  Note: was wearing delivery registration HB-JHB on right hand side. Departed on test flight at 11:07L 

1019  330-223  F-WWKZ  AirComet, full colours.  Parked at l’aubrevouir, plant-side.  Noted landing after test flight 15:39L 

1021  330-323E  F-WWYN  Air Caraibes, full colours.  Parked at l’aubrevouir, terminal-side.

1022  330-243  F-WWYP  US Airways, full colours.  Parked at l’aubrevouir, terminal-side.  Note: was wearing delivery registration N280AY on right hand side.  

1023  330-302E  F-WWYQ  Finnair, full colours.  Parked at corner of l’aubrevouir, with engine covers on.  To become OH-LTP.

1025  330-302E  (F-WWYU)  Aer Lingus, full colours.  Parked at l’aubrevouir, plant-side.  To become EI-EDY.

1031  330-223  (no registration worn)  All (yellow) storage primer, including tail.  Parked midfield with undercarriage in storage configuration, i.e. taped and bagged up.

1033  330-243  F-WWKJ  Standard (green) primer with low viz grey tail with ‘AIRBUS MILITARY’ and ‘AirTanker’ titles, and grey engines.  Parked at corner of l’aubrevouir.  First Tanker for the Royal Air Force as ZZ330.  

1034  330-223  F-WWKS  Standard (green) primer, including tail.  Parked, engineless, on the H. ZIEGLER wash-station.  AirComet customer stickers.  Painting with yellow (storage) primer underway at 10:40L and complete by 14:30L  

1036  330-203  F-WWKZ  Standard (green) primer.  RAAF customer stickers.  Parked, engineless, outside the C. ADER FAL.  4th MRTT for Royal Australian Air Force as A39-004.

1042  330-223  (Registration, if worn, could not be seen).  All standard (green) primer, including tail.  Seen on partially-open C. ADER FAL in poste 30A.  Was destined for AirComet.

1045  330-243  (Registration, if worn, could not be seen).  Standard (green) primer with full colours Aeroflot tail with ‘N1045’ sticker at base, noted, in mating jig, Poste 36/67? on the C. ADER FAL.  To become VQ-BBF.   

 

Additional frames which could not be read off due to position were:

330-???  All primer, including tail, seen in closing paint hangar (directly opposite terminal) as we landed at 09:25.

330-???  Silhouette seen in closed ZIEGLER DC hangar (all day). 

330-343E  Thai Airways International, glimpsed in partially open big re-work hangar, alongside House 346 F-WWCA on ADER complex.  Assumed to be MSN1003 F-WWKP.

 

 

Bits and pieces:

None this visit.

 

A380

001  380-841  F-WWOW  Airbus.  Parked on Development flight-line (St. Martin du Touch).  Departed at 14:00L and then flew several missed approaches and landings, departing again after back-tracking the runway until around 16:40L.  Not seen as we departed at 22:00L so either hangared or back in the air. 

002  380-841  F-WXXL  Airbus.  Not seen.  Hangared undergoing re-work to production standard as a business jet.

004  380-861  F-WWDD  Airbus.  Note revised designation (was built as a Rolls Royce-powered -841).  Parked on Development flight-line (St. Martin du Touch), now in full Airbus house colours.  Has not been seen by me for several months.  Assumed this will be the aircraft exhibited at the Le Bourget show?  First sighting since seen in big re-work hangar on the ADER complex (in Environmental colours) in early January 2009. 

007  380-861  F-WWJB  Airbus.   Note revised designation (was built as a Rolls Royce-powered -841).  Parked on Aero Constellation production flight line at stand A14.  Full Airbus House colours, apart from all-white rudder and full Emirates engine colours.

009  380-861  F-WWEA  Airbus.  Not seen.  Hangared undergoing re-work to production standard.

 

021  380-841  F-WWSQ  Singapore Airlines, full colours.  Parked at the H. ZIEGLER DC, terminal-side.  To become 9V-SKH. 

025  380-861  F-WWSV  Standard (green) primer with full Emirates Airline tail and engine colours.  Parked on Aero Constellation production flight line at stand A17.  For Emirates Airline as A6-EDH.  Note: This airframe was previously seen on the FAL in Poste 30B on a previous visit in April 2009.  As Poste 30B was still empty on today’s tour, this presumably cannot have been outside for very long.

028  380-861  No registration yet applied.  Expected to become F-WWSZ.  Standard (green) primer with full Emirates Airline tail.  Engineless. On J.L. LAGARDERE FAL – poste 30C.  Reportedly seen during the morning through closing doors to FAL.  As they were still positioning the various gantries around it when I hit the tour balcony at 15:15L my guess is that it had entered this position earlier that day.  See notes against MSN0047 (below) for corroboration of this theory.

040  380-861  F-WWSE  Standard (green) primer with (old) Air France tail and engine colours.  Parked on Aero Constellation production flight line at stand A12.  For Air France as F-HPJB.

043  380-861  No registration yet applied.  Expected to become F-WWAB.  Standard (green) primer with (old) Air France tail and engine colours.  Parked on Aero Constellation production flight line at stand A19.  Destined for Air France as F-HPJC.

047  380-842  No registration yet applied.  Expected to become F-WWAD.  Standard (green) primer with (new) QANTAS Airways tail (‘OQG’) and engine colours. First to come off the FAL with the new tail colours.  Parked on Aero Constellation production flight line at stand A15.  For QANTAS as VH-OQG. Note: I believe this airframe was rolled out of the FAL this day, as it was not seen outside as we landed at 09:25L   I had previously seen it in Poste 30C on a tour in April 2009, and this is the same Poste where MSN0028 was being installed later that afternoon which, I believe, clearly indicates a swap-over.

050  380-842  No registration yet applied.  Expected to become F-WWAE.  Standard (green) primer with white tail.  Engineless, but an engine noted on trolley beside it. On J.L. LAGARDERE FAL – poste 30A.  For QANTAS as VH-OQH. 

  

Bits and pieces:

Full Emirates Airline colours vertical tail-fin noted in the open Beluga Unpack shed opposite the terminal.  Seen being towed across the field to the J.L. LAGARDERE plant on transportation jig.  No visible markings, but believed to belong to the future MSN0030.  Was followed in convoy by APU section on separate trolley/jig, again no visible markings as to its identity.

  

  

ATR Plant

098  72-600  F-WWEY  House.  Not seen.

 

801  42-500  (F-WWLT)  Air St. Pierre, full colours.  Parked at the ATR DC terminal-side.

802  42-500  F-WWLU All white colours.  Appeared on ATR DC, terminal-side, by 18:00L

804  42-500  F-WWLW  Primer with all-white tail.  Departed off 32L 15:13L.  Did not see it return.

867  72-212A  (F-WWER)  Tarom, full colours.   Parked on ATR DC, terminal-side. 

868  72-212A  F-WWES  Firefly, full colours.  Parked on ATR DC, terminal-side.  Taxied out for engine runs on Airbus Development apron 09:50L.  Back to original position at the DC 10:05L 

 

Additional frames which could not be read off due to position were:

1.  72-212A  Air Botswana, full colours.  Noted being towed to St. Martin du Touch, and out of sight 18:20L  Assumed to be MSN788 F-WWEG/A2-ABS.

2.  72-212A  Finncomm, full colours. Parked on ATR flight line. Assumed to be MSN848 F-WWEN. 

3.  72-212A  fly 540 Angola, full colours.  Parked on ATR flight line.  Assumed to be MSN816  F-WWEF.  

4.  72-212A  fly 540 Angola, full colours.  Parked on ATR flight line.  Assumed to be MSN826  F-WWEU.

5.  72-212A?  Primer without tail. Parked at very rear of St. Martin du Touch apron, near ATR hangars.

6.  42-500?  Primer fuselage noted in (Airbus) Beluga unpack shed opposite terminal.

Latecoere Aeroservices

086  42-300  9G-ANT  Antrak Air, full colours.  Being washed outside main hangar.

503  42-500  VT-ADI  Air Deccan, old colours.  Parked outside main hangar, by the front gate.

510  42-500  VT-ADH  Air Deccan, old colours.  Parked outside main hangar, by the front gate.

666  72-212A  D-ANFK  All white.  Parked outside on storage ramp.

691  42-500  F-WWLM  All white.  Parked outside on storage ramp.  Cockpit and cabin windows now covered with silver tape.  Long term storage configuration. 

836  72-212A  F-WWEC  fly 540 Rwanda, full colours.  Parked outside on storage ramp in same configuration as MSN691.

845  72-212A  F-WWEK  fly 540 Angola, full colours.  Parked outside near the front gate, in same storage configuration as MSN691.

846  72-212A  F-WWEL  Islas Airways, full colours.  Parked outside near the front gate, in same storage configuration as MSN691.

851  72-212A  F-WWEU  fly 540 Angola, full colours.  Parked outside on storage ramp in same configuration as MSN691.

                                                                                                            

Additional frames which could not be read off due to position were:

 

 

 

Air France Industries

0436  320-212  N436BV  All-white with blue engines.  Inside hangar, receiving attention.  Believed to be destined for Strategic Airlines.

0509  321-111  F-GMZB  Air France.  Rolled out in full new colours at around 14:00L time and parked on apron outside main hangar.  Departed 19:33L on ferry flight (back to Paris ORY?).

1017  321-211  F-OIVU  Air Ivoire, full colours.  Parked on apron outside main hangar.

Selected Visitors

7T-VKC  73H  DAH

CN-RMW  735  RAM

CN-RNC  734  BMM

D-AGWF  319  GWI

D-ALIA  E70  RUS

D-AOLG  100 OLT

D-AOLH  100 OLT

EC-JTS  CR9  ANE

EC-JYA  CR9  ANE

EC-JZT  CR9  ANE

F-GFUF  733  FPO

F-GIXJ  733  FPO

F-GPYN  AT5 RLA

F-GRPY  AT7  CCM

F-GZTB  733  FPO

F-HBXA  E70  RLA

F-HMTO  AT4  SAFIRE

G-EZAJ  319  EZY

G-EZED  319  EZY

G-EZMS  319  EZY

G-EZNC  319  EZY

OO-TAF  146  TAY

OY-SRF  762  SRR

 

F-GHOC  B200

F-GJFE  B200

LX-DCA  Cessna CJ-3

MM62207  P-180AM  A.M.I.

N598CA  Cessna 550 

VP-BKZ  GV

 

  

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