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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Airbus Military begins final assembly of second serial A400M

[A400M]The Airbus Military A400M final assembly line (FAL) in Seville (Spain) has begun working on the second serial production A400M.

The integration of the wings and central wing-box for this aircraft, known as MSN8, began in February.

The rest of the main components of the second A400M destined for delivery to a customer –the French Air Force– arrived at Seville last weeks: the vertical tailplane (VTP) from Stade (Germany); the nose from Saint Nazaire (France), the horizontal tailplane (HTP) from the nearby Tablada site (Seville), and the fuselage from Bremen (Germany).

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