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Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:23:00 GMT


The first A400M, MSN1 bearing the civil registration F-WMMT, was formally handed over to the Airbus Integrated Flight Test Operation Team at Seville on 12th November 2009. In the video you can see Airbus head of flight operations Fernando Alonso taking delivery of the aircraft outside the final assembly line (FAL) – a big day for his team accompanying him. And in a symbolic enough move, the aircraft was shortly afterwards towed into the flight-test hangar which would be its home for the months ahead.