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alangla said:
Just got an alert from the Flightradar app about this - https://www.flightradar24.com/AFR373S/23ed422b - one of Air France's off to a scrapyard in Ireland. I assume this is the first time one has landed at Knock, can't imagine any will ever take off from there.
There’s no scrapyard at Knock, in fact I’d be amazed if there’s room to park an A380 You can see the apron to the right .. big enough for a couple of 737’s
If it’s definitely coming in I’ll jump in my car and go and watch it land .. but I have my doubts
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Edited by Earthdweller on Thursday 20th February 14:46
Edited by Earthdweller on Thursday 20th February 14:48
It’s definitely going to knock to
https://eirtradeaviation.com/
They’ve got a hanger on the apron.
Here
https://eirtradeaviation.com/
They’ve got a hanger on the apron.
Here
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 20th February 14:56
MSN 40 so only about 10 years old, looks to have been in storage 
I was in our A380 Factory just before Christmas, awfully quiet and strategic plans in place to reconfigure the existing place.
Such a shame, it unfortunately launched 20 years too late.
Nothing comes close for passenger enjoyment, 1st - economy, granted a 747-8 is pretty good too.
I was in our A380 Factory just before Christmas, awfully quiet and strategic plans in place to reconfigure the existing place.
Such a shame, it unfortunately launched 20 years too late.
Nothing comes close for passenger enjoyment, 1st - economy, granted a 747-8 is pretty good too.
Lord.Vader said:
MSN 40 so only about 10 years old, looks to have been in storage
I was in our A380 Factory just before Christmas, awfully quiet and strategic plans in place to reconfigure the existing place.
Such a shame, it unfortunately launched 20 years too late.
Nothing comes close for passenger enjoyment, 1st - economy, granted a 747-8 is pretty good too.
Looks like it’s last commercial flight was back from a Shanghai on NYE.I was in our A380 Factory just before Christmas, awfully quiet and strategic plans in place to reconfigure the existing place.
Such a shame, it unfortunately launched 20 years too late.
Nothing comes close for passenger enjoyment, 1st - economy, granted a 747-8 is pretty good too.
I think the A350 is nicer to fly on that the A380 but that’s just me. You’re right it turned up at a party that was fizzling out.
El stovey said:
It’s definitely going to knock to
https://eirtradeaviation.com/
They’ve got a hanger on the apron.
Here
Fair enough .. but I’d be amazed if you got an A380 in it https://eirtradeaviation.com/
They’ve got a hanger on the apron.
Here
Edited by El stovey on Thursday 20th February 14:56
Earthdweller said:
El stovey said:
It’s definitely going to knock to
https://eirtradeaviation.com/
They’ve got a hanger on the apron.
Here
Fair enough .. but I’d be amazed if you got an A380 in it https://eirtradeaviation.com/
They’ve got a hanger on the apron.
Here
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 20th February 14:56
Maybe they have to chop some bits off before it goes in the hanger?
The hanger is only 35m wide and the A380 has an 80m wingspan. Assuming there isn’t a newer building there since the photos obviously.
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 20th February 17:10
El stovey said:
Earthdweller said:
El stovey said:
It’s definitely going to knock to
https://eirtradeaviation.com/
They’ve got a hanger on the apron.
Here
Fair enough .. but I’d be amazed if you got an A380 in it https://eirtradeaviation.com/
They’ve got a hanger on the apron.
Here
Edited by El stovey on Thursday 20th February 14:56
Maybe they have to chop some bits off before it goes in the hanger.
Website does list the A380 as one of the types they break there - https://eirtradeaviation.com/asset-management/airc... - looking at the video at the side, I'm surprised they did the final breaking of the fuselage in the hangar. Would have thought it would have been dragged outside after all the useful bits were removed.
El stovey said:
What a shame a perfectly serviceable relatively young and thoroughly modern aircraft is being chopped up to make coke cans.How the industry changes in such a short period of time.
HoHoHo said:
What a shame a perfectly serviceable relatively young and thoroughly modern aircraft is being chopped up to make coke cans.
How the industry changes in such a short period of time.
There’s an interesting article here about decommissioning a previous one.How the industry changes in such a short period of time.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/simpleflying.com/fi...
At the moment they can use lots of the parts as spares
but it took 11 months to take it apart. Doesn’t look like there’s much room in knock to do another one.
Eric Mc said:
If a type of airliner is no longer economically viable to operate, it can be retired and scrapped fairly early in its life. British Airways retired and scrapped its remaining Trident Threes by the end of 1985. Most of those aircraft were less than 15 years old at that time.
I remember seeing this.Eric Mc said:
So do I. I went for a skulk around the Heathrow maintenance area in the Spring of 1986 and there was a whole line of Trident 3 hulks lying on their bellies.
It was quite sad to see.
I do miss the "screamers" from back then, the NIMBY's would be cowering with rage if they heard a Trident today It was quite sad to see.
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