A 13-year-old Qantas Airbus A380 is being scrapped in Victorville.

The first Qantas A380 is being dismantled. The A380 (registration VH-OQF) is currently being destroyed in California’s Mojave Desert. The A380 parts retrieved will be utilized as spares and stored in Australia, as well as at Los Angeles International Airport.  The plane was delivered in January 2010 and has been in storage in California since March 2020. A second Qantas will be decommissioned in the coming months.

according to simply fling On March 6, 2001, VH-OQF, which was little over 13 years old at the time, was the sixth aircraft ordered by the Australian flag carrier. It was the third ‘Wave 2’ aircraft to be outfitted and powered by the new electric harness. It rolled off the Airbus assembly line as ‘F-WWSA’ on February 18th, 2009, and was accepted by Qantas on January 8th, 2010. The delivery flight from Toulouse to Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport was operated as QF6028, and it served its first revenue flight from SYD to LAX as QF11 on January 17th, 2010.

Today is #QFFriday
This is the first Qantas A380 being scrapped. The parts will be for spares & to be held at LAX & back in Australia. These pics were taken two days ago at Victorville. @Keg767 @boregos_oz #Qantas #A380 #Victorville #SoSad pic.twitter.com/KIhZzN6iBc

— Alex ?? (@speedbird020) June 9, 2022

Notably, after being repainted at the Emirates Aircraft Appearance Centre in Dubai, VH-OQF became the first Qantas A380 to bear the airline’s new “Silver Roo” livery in March 2018.

Charles Kingsford Smith was carried directly to Victorville in July 2020 and has remained there since.

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It comes after Qantas said in August that it would restore 10 of its 12 Airbus A380s to passenger service and retire the remaining two.

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