A380 & A300 in production aircraft photos

[mpenguin1]

A buddy of mine was in France for A300 training & came back with some cool shots

Here are "2" A380 Production Photos

And here is the first A300-600F for Air Hong Kong

 

[sldauby]

Those are some cool pics! Thanks for sharing!

For some reason, I thought Airbus stopped manufacturing A300s. Did I miss something?

 

[Minuteman]

"Somebody punched that nice airplane square in the face."

 

[A300Capt]

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For some reason, I thought Airbus stopped manufacturing A300s. Did I miss something?

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Yes.

 

[sldauby]

Oh, ok....

 

[mpenguin1]

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Those are some cool pics! Thanks for sharing!

For some reason, I thought Airbus stopped manufacturing A300s. Did I miss something?

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Always willings to share with my roomies.

Air Hong Kong is the launch operator for the A300-600F general freighter.

 

[mpenguin1]

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Those are some cool pics! Thanks for sharing!

For some reason, I thought Airbus stopped manufacturing A300s. Did I miss something?

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» Airbus / Boeing deliveries October 04 «

Airbus delivered 37 airliners in October 2004
2 A300s
27 A318/A319/A320/A321s
8 A330/A340s
Airbus delivered 261 aircraft in the first ten
months (vv 230 a year before) and plans to
deliver 315 in 2004

Boeing delivered 20 airliners in October 2004
13 737s, 2 747
1 767, 4 777s
Boeing delivered 238 through first ten months
(vv 230 a year before) and plans to
deliver 285 in 2004.

 

[sldauby]

Ah, ok...thanks for the info mpenguin1!

 

[A300Capt]

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Air Hong Kong is the launch operator for the A300-600F general freighter.


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Depends on which "F" model we're talking about. I believe FedEx was the original launch customer back in '94. UPS announced in '98 the intent to buy 90 new A300-600F's and started taking delivery in 2000. Airbus had closed the A300 line but reopened it due to UPS's order.

Air Hong Kong is the launch customer for the A300-600F "General Freighter". Frankly, I really don't see what the difference is between what we have and what Air Hong Kong is getting. Say's it is self loading with a large cargo door on the side to accommodate freight and pallet loading. Sounds like what we have other than the self loading and possibly a few very minor changes.

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Airbus delivered 37 airliners in October 2004
2 A300s


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We received more than 2 brand new A300's in '04 so this source is wrong.

 

[mpenguin1]

A300CPT

Your picking on me, here is a table taken from the Airbus website:

http://www.airbus.com/doc/media/ordersndeliveries/orders_n_deliveries.xls

"2" A300's were delivered in October/2004

1 to Air Hong Kong, 07-October-2004
1 to UPS, 21-October-2004

The chart does show a A300 was delivered in September/2004.

 

[sldauby]

Ah, ok. That was what I was confused about, as I was not aware that the A300 line was reopened for UPS. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[rv7]

Cool pictures...that building is HUUGE!

 

[A300Capt]

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A300CPT

Your picking on me, here is a table taken from the Airbus website:



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Not picking on you, Mike. Sorry it sounded that way. It was my mistake anyway as I see you just quoted the month of October and not the entire year of '04.

Bill