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Post by gennadius01 on Jul 21, 2014 16:26:44 GMT 1
LH-taufnamen, which in my experience seems to be a rather good source, has listed the cancelled 787-8i and test aircraft LN1435/D-ABYE with a planned delivery in March 2015 www.lh-taufnamen.de/lufthansa/Here is a pic from the Paine Field Blog post where that information is currently sourced from.
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Post by peter on Jul 21, 2014 21:35:47 GMT 1
LH-taufnamen, which in my experience seems to be a rather good source, has listed the cancelled 787-8i and test aircraft LN1435/D-ABYE with a planned delivery in March 2015 There is just this tiny little problem with that: LH cancelled that order.....
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Post by s543 on Jul 21, 2014 22:06:26 GMT 1
It is interesting problem - but for sure time will tell
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Post by gennadius01 on Jul 21, 2014 23:01:49 GMT 1
LH-taufnamen, which in my experience seems to be a rather good source, has listed the cancelled 787-8i and test aircraft LN1435/D-ABYE with a planned delivery in March 2015 There is just this tiny little problem with that: LH cancelled that order..... Heh, yes. However it was noted earlier this year that after the PIP testing, and sitting around for some time, the frame was once again allocated DLH as its customer code. This spurred some discussion as to whether or not Lufthansa would be picking her back up, and perhaps a few more. There has been no official announcement that I can find, and even as recently as the 1500th 747 delivery had Lufthansa officials quoted as saying they had 19 747-8s on order. This is the most activity we have seen around the frame in quite a while though, and corroboration at a certain level (via Matt's blog) as opposed to simply the internal customer code that we had before.
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Post by peter on Jul 22, 2014 11:03:15 GMT 1
...... the frame was once again allocated DLH as its customer code....... This aircraft was built as a 747-830 and will remain to be a 747-830 'till the day it's axed. The only 747's ever getting another customer code were c/n 20208, a 747-127 built for Braniff and c/n 20305, a 747-124 for Continental Airlines. Both were converted to 747-1D1 for Universal Airlines. Ironically Universal never took delivery of the aircraft and both were delivered to Wardair Canada, but with the Universal customer code. Changing the customer code has also been done on a few classic 737's and a few 727's. All this happened in the early 1970's when Boeing received just a handfull of orders and a lot of cancellations 18 months in a row.
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Post by deeps2076 on Jul 22, 2014 11:58:05 GMT 1
I'm glad BA didn't do this for the England team as we were out before the paint would have had chance to dry.
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Post by someone on Jul 22, 2014 12:25:50 GMT 1
LH-taufnamen, which in my experience seems to be a rather good source, has listed the cancelled 787-8i and test aircraft LN1435/D-ABYE with a planned delivery in March 2015 There is just this tiny little problem with that: LH cancelled that order..... I agree with that "little problem" and have noticed that Lufthansa order still stands at 19. But why apparently the increased effort in modifying this aircraft?
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Post by peter on Jul 22, 2014 12:47:37 GMT 1
I agree with that "little problem" and have noticed that Lufthansa order still stands at 19. But why apparently the increased effort in modifying this aircraft? Probably another series of flight tests. It was used for that purpose last year also.
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Post by gennadius01 on Jul 22, 2014 18:52:31 GMT 1
...... the frame was once again allocated DLH as its customer code....... This aircraft was built as a 747-830 and will remain to be a 747-830 'till the day it's axed. The only 747's ever getting another customer code were c/n 20208, a 747-127 built for Braniff and c/n 20305, a 747-124 for Continental Airlines. Both were converted to 747-1D1 for Universal Airlines. Ironically Universal never took delivery of the aircraft and both were delivered to Wardair Canada, but with the Universal customer code. Changing the customer code has also been done on a few classic 737's and a few 727's. All this happened in the early 1970's when Boeing received just a handfull of orders and a lot of cancellations 18 months in a row. Sorry, that's my fault for using the term customer code incorrectly. What I was trying to describe was whatever internal tracking code that Boeing uses. This is from 747Classic's Provisional Aircraft Production List post: That internal listing is what I was referring to.
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Post by s543 on Jul 22, 2014 19:14:32 GMT 1
I strongly doubt LH would take this frame under regular conditions - since it is #2 test it is going to be much heavier than current frames. They would take it only if it would be considerably cheaper - than of course.... I am sure we will never know how much but we will see in time if they decide to take it. I do believe that BOE would be ready to sell it real cheap, since what ever they get above scrape price is pure gain in this case.
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