Aéroport de Toulouse-Blagnac, Avenue du Parc, Cantegril, Blagnac, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France métropolitaine, 31700, France
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Airways: "8/13/1997: Airbus[2] A330-200 Takes to the Skies" (prototype F-WWCB from Toulouse-Blagnac); flugzeuginfo lists "First Flight 13.08.1997"; Gulf News[4] of 15 August 1997 reports the four-hour first flight; Flight International had forecast "maiden flight in August 1997".The shortened A330-200 made its maiden flight from Toulouse on 13 August 1997, a four-hour sortie that opened a 630-hour test programme. It was Airbus's answer to the Boeing 767-300ER, with 12,000 km of range.
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