Lufthansa Technik has handed over the third and final Airbus A350 government aircraft to the German Federal Ministry of Defense's Special Air Mission Wing.
Described as the “largest modernization programme in the history of the Special Air Mission Wing “, the work comprised a total of four cabin modifications for three aircraft.
""The largest modernization programme in the history of the Special Air Mission Wing can justifiably be called a Herculean task. Four cabin refurbishments for a total of three wide-body jets over a period of just four years, and some of them were still heavily influenced by the pandemic,"" explained Soeren Stark, chief executive officer of Lufthansa Technik AG.
""I am all the more proud of our team, which mastered this task with flying colors, and completely within the estimated cost and time frame. I take my hat off to this achievement and thank everyone who was involved.""
In a statement from Lufthansa, the initial handover of the plane took place “just a few months after the decision was made to replace the German Air Force's two long-serving Airbus A340s with three brand-new A350s for long-haul political and parliamentary air transport.
“With the delivery of 10+03, the long-haul fleet of the Special Air Mission Wing is now once again uniform both externally and internally, at least almost: only a few small accents in the interior, individual reminiscences of the respective namesakes, now distinguish ""Adenauer"", ""Heuss"" and ""Schumacher"" from each other”.
Lufthansa Technik hands over final A350 to the German Air Force
