by Devesh Agarwal and Vinay Bhaskara
Dallas-Fort Worth headquartered American Airlines recieved its first Airbus narrow body aircraft, an A319-112(WL). MSN 5678 is registered N8001N, is the first A319 delivered, equipped with Sharklets, and the 100th A320 family aircraft delivered, fitted with the new wing-tip devices. The engines are from CFM.
Our Vinay Bhaskara captured these exclusive photos at the Hamburg delivery centre on behalf of airchive.com. You can read his story about the events of the delivery day here.
The videos are below the fold. All images are credit of airchive.com.
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