Overview

• On October 1, 2025, the A380 (MSN114) was ferried from Tarbes–Lourdes–Pyrénées Airport to Abu Dhabi in 6 hours 35 minutes and was taxied to the Etihad Engineering area.
• Airbus told Flightradar24 the aircraft will receive modifications after heavy maintenance to serve as a future flight test platform.
• The jet performed a 2 hour 55 minute maintenance flight over France on September 26 following a rejected takeoff run observed the previous day.
• Originally delivered to Malaysia Airlines in 2013 as 9M‑MNF, the airframe logged fewer than roughly 2,400 flight hours before entering storage in December 2022.
• This reactivation follows at least one other recent A380 return to the skies, signaling renewed activity among previously stored superjumbos.