Considering that the Airbus A380 has a 262-foot wingspan and a length of 239 feet, painting the double-deck airliner is a monumental task. It takes 950 gallons of paint to adequately cover the outside ...

Airbus has qualified a new paint system that has been tested on one of the A380 development aircraft and will be used first by Emirates, writes Rob Coppinger. Last month, the painting of A380 MSN002 ...

Qatar Airways will join airlines flying the new A380. Qatar Airways will join airlines flying the new A380. The vertical tail section for the first A380 for Qatar Airways has been painted with the ...

The first A380 for All Nippon Airways (ANA) has rolled out of the Airbus paint shop in Hamburg, Germany, bearing the airline’s distinctive and unique Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle livery. ANA has firm ...

How many Airbus workers does it take to paint an A380 superjumbo jet? Over the course of 21 days, 100 painters (working in four shifts) coated the world’s biggest passenger plane in more than 581 ...

Following timely completion of the cabin installation of the first A380 for Singapore Airlines, Airbus has started the paintwork on this aircraft.The A380 will stay about three weeks in the company’s ...

The vertical tail section for the first A380 for Qatar Airways has been painted with the airline's trademark oryx logo at Airbus facilities in Hamburg. The painting was completed earlier this week and ...