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Airbus A380 unveiled at French plant

Airbus last month unveiled its first complete A380 double-decker, making the European consortium the builder of the world’s biggest passenger airplane.

By Gordon Gilbert • Contributor - Accidents and Regulations

January 31, 2007

Airbus last month unveiled its first complete A380 double-decker, making the European consortium the builder of the world’s biggest passenger airplane. In the high-profile January 18 ceremony at the Toulouse final assembly facility in Southern France, the European manufacturer unveiled to 5,000 guests, among them four heads of state, F-WWOW, which will be the first of the 555-seaters to fly.

The first flight is tentatively scheduled for late next month, a slight slippage from the late-2004 target announced at the program’s launch in 2000. Airbus is now in a race to obtain certification in time to meet the airplane’s planned entry into service. Singapore Airlines has pegged the inaugural commercial flight for the spring of next year, between London and Singapore.

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