A380 - Product launch and delivery

[zvezda]

9V-SKI onwards will be Tranche 2.

No, SQ's first tranche is 9V-SKA through 9V-SKJ (ten WhaleJets ordered March 2001) and their second tranche is 9V-SKK through 9V-SKS (nine WhaleJets ordered December 2006).

[Nick C]

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...-aircraft.html

Wave 2 finally powers up!

9V-SKI onwards will be Wave 2 airframes.

[Nick C]

[zvezda]

9V-SKD did it's first revenue flight to SYD last night.

Wow! That was quick. It used to take UA a week to get a new A319/A320 into service.

[Nick C]

9V-SKD did it's first revenue flight to SYD last night. Will post the pictures later.

[Megatop]

Fourth A380 jet joins SIA's fleet

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[Nick C]

9V-SKD has been delivered. Just landed in SIN this morning (ex-TLS).

Msn 008 is the 4th A380 for SQ. It's F-WWSE for now. F-WWSD is going to Eithad.

Look at the nose gear door. It's labeled KD.

It seems that F-WWSD (007) has been reassignment to EK and will be re-engined to EAs.

[Nick C]

Singapore Airlines (Singapore) took delivery on Saturday of its fourth Airbus A380. A spokeswoman from Airbus said that the double-decker plane, the fourth to leave the production line, had taken off from Toulouse and was due to enter service in mid-May between Singapore and Tokyo. Airbus has said it will deliver a total of thirteen (13) A380s this year, and its ability to stick to this schedule is a key factor driving the shares of parent EADS.

SKD has arrived!

[zvezda]

9V-SKD and 9V-SWQ are reportedly both scheduled to arrive in SIN on the 30th of April. Whichever enters service first will bring SQ's active passenger fleet to 100 aircraft.

I will be there to see the arrivals!

[Verbal]

The fourth Superjumbo for SIA arrived yesterday evening to Toulouse from Hamburg where it was undergoing cabin fitting.

[zvezda]

Msn 008 is the 4th A380 for SQ. It's F-WWSE for now.

Perhaps that confused the photographer.

Look at the nose gear door. It's labeled KD.

I did that the first time and I can't read it. It looks more like a D than an E to me, but I can't be sure.

[Nick C]

Why do you think that? The photographer thought it was 9V-SKE. Why would he be wrong? He was there.

Msn 008 is the 4th A380 for SQ. It's F-WWSE for now. F-WWSD is going to Eithad.

Look at the nose gear door. It's labeled KD.

[Ikarus2006]

I stopped monday at the gate of the Delivery Center in Hamburg and there was an SQ A380 with full livery visible, but way too far away to read the registration . Though some singaporean guy at the Aircraft Interior Expo said that SKD was not in Hamburg but in Toulouse monday, can anybody confirm?

[zvezda]

It's 9V-SKD.

Why do you think that? The photographer thought it was 9V-SKE. Why would he be wrong? He was there.

[Nick C]

photo of 9V-SKE (MSN : 008) at Hamburg, Finkenwerder

http://www.airfleets.net/show/99465

It's 9V-SKD.