Airbus A340-311 MSN 001

Timeline

History

Airbus A340-311, serial number 1, first flight 25 Oct 1991. Delivered to Airbus PR 340-3. Roll(ed) out early Oct 1991, seen Toulouse, France 16 Oct 1991 for Lufth 1.93?permit to fly for F-WWAI 1.10- 30 Sep 1992, ferried Toulouse, France to Hamburg-Finkenwerder, Germany 24 Apr 1998, returned Toulouse, France 25 Apr 1998, frd.. Toulouse, France 20 Jun 1999, first flight 20 Jun 2000 with Trent 500 as eng. #2, test flight 22 Nov 2002, testflight with CFM56 engines 4 Dec 2002, f/f as AWIATOR-testbed (Aircraft Wing Advanced Technology Operation) 29 Aug 2003, f/f with Trent 900 as engine #2 17 May 2004, f/f Airbus new colours 12 Jul 2006, seen at Toulouse, France 4 CFM56 engines 4 Feb 2009, ferried to Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées Airport, Tarbes/Lourdes/Pyrénées 23 Feb 2015, LDE-TLS-LDE testfl late Dec 2015, arrived Toulouse, France 4 Jan 2016 due for Darwin 9 Jan 2016 for three weeks of pitot tube tests, ferried Toulouse, France to Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées Airport, Tarbes/Lourdes/Pyrénées 4 Apr 2016 parked, f/f 26 Sep 2017 after modification as doing business as Breakthrough Laminar Aircraft Demonstrator for Europe (BLADE) in which the outer sections of the wings were removed and replaced with laminar wing panels, stored Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées Airport, Tarbes/Lourdes/Pyrénées 6 Aug 2019, seen May 2023 taped up, complete. Current status: stored.