Turkey's First A400M Gets Airborne
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Conducted from the manufacturer's San Pablo final assembly site in Seville, Spain on 9 August, the milestone moves aircraft MSN9 closer to its planned delivery later this year. Airbus Military has previously outlined a schedule to hand over Ankara's first of 10 examples in late September.
Turkey's first pilots, loadmasters and technicians for the A400M are already receiving instruction on the new type at the San Pablo site's international training centre, the company says.
Meanwhile, Airbus Military's flight test campaign with the A400M currently involves a fresh series of unpaved runway trials, using development aircraft "Grizzly 2" at a site near Zaragoza, Spain.
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