{"id":7962,"date":"2020-04-14T05:48:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=7962"},"modified":"2020-04-14T05:49:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:49:26","slug":"luxembourg-armed-forces-a400m-makes-maiden-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=7962","title":{"rendered":"Luxembourg Armed Forces A400M Makes Maiden Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1668\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Luxembourg-A400M-1.jpg?fit=640%2C427\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Luxembourg-A400M-1.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Luxembourg-A400M-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Luxembourg-A400M-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Luxembourg-A400M-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Luxembourg-A400M-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Luxembourg-A400M-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Airbus A400M new-generation airlifter ordered by the Luxembourg Armed Forces has made its maiden flight, marking a key milestone towards its delivery. The aircraft, known as MSN104, took off from Seville (Spain), where the final assembly line is located, at 16:08 local time (CET) and landed back on site 5 hours later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Luxembourg aircraft will be operated by the armed forces of Belgium and Luxembourg within a binational unit based in Belgium. MSN104 is scheduled to be delivered in the second quarter of 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The picture shows the Luxembourg aircraft landing at Seville airport, Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1668\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Luxembourg-A400M-2.jpg?fit=640%2C427\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Luxembourg-A400M-2.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Luxembourg-A400M-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Luxembourg-A400M-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Luxembourg-A400M-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Luxembourg-A400M-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Luxembourg-A400M-2-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Airbus A400M new-generation airlifter ordered by the Luxembourg Armed Forces has made its maiden flight, marking a key milestone towards its delivery. The aircraft, known as <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10172,4510,8637,9316,798,4813,3965,89,5637,4552,1836,5992,7929,2203,4957,5676,10674,5446,10169,10176,1397,10195,10171,868],"tags":[890,464,10258,4907,2915,160,1927,11292,1268,1782,3451,660,4056,1182,4320,1795,8565,4197,4341,4755,4605,889,11291,718,412,4438,7537,7165,1932,11290,1691,1658,1522],"class_list":["post-7962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-aerospace-news","category-air-cargo-news","category-air-force-news","category-airbus-news","category-airplane-news","category-airport-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-cargo-news","category-defense-news","category-economic-news","category-european-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-international-news","category-military","category-military-news","category-news","category-stock-news-2","category-stock-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","tag-a400m","tag-aircraft","tag-airlifter","tag-armed","tag-assembly","tag-aviation","tag-belgium","tag-binational","tag-defense","tag-delivery","tag-final","tag-flight","tag-forces","tag-generation","tag-key","tag-line","tag-located","tag-luxembourg","tag-maiden","tag-makes","tag-milestone","tag-military","tag-msn104","tag-new","tag-news","tag-operated","tag-ordered","tag-seville","tag-spain","tag-towards","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7965,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions\/7965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}