Tarmac Aerosave receives its 500th aircraft: Singapore Airlines's first A380 |
| Emilie Drab |
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29 NOV 2017 | 171 words
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Tarmac Aerosave has announced that it received its 500th aircraft on 13th November. This is the first Airbus A380 retired from service, MSN 003, which until then was operated by Singapore Airlines. The Asia airline has returned it to its lessor, Germany's Dr Peters, who is storing it in Tarbes while awaiting a second life.
Singapore Airlines has decided to renew its A380 fleet by replacing the first five aircraft that were delivered to it. Two have already left the fleet. The new aircraft will integrate a new cabin, which will be introduced in December and rolled out across the whole A380 fleet gradually by 2020.
In addition, the French plane maintenance, storage and dismantling company is indicating that it has completed the work to build extra parking spaces to enable it to acquire other very high capacity planes.
The extension work began in January in anticipation of the future A380 storage requirements and ended on 9th November for the first parking spaces.
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Emilie Drab
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Civil aerospace, Air transport
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