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Airbus's[1][3][6] own story is dated 29 September 2026: "Today the first A350F aircraft – MSN700 – took to the skies for the very first time", and the crew "flew the aircraft for 4 hours and 10 minutes". Airways reports that on "Tuesday, September 29, at exactly 10:30 am local time, the first A350F, F-WXLD, took off from Toulouse Airport (TLS) RWY 14R". The earlier "around 24 September" was a Reuters-sourced target; the end time adds the 4 h 10 min flight to the 10:30 CEST take-off.Airbus's first A350F, MSN700 (F-WXLD), took off from Toulouse-Blagnac at about 10:30 local time on 29 September 2026 and flew for 4 hours 10 minutes, opening a roughly 400-hour certification campaign ahead of a first delivery in the second half of 2027.
