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I like taking my exec jet to Aspen. So while the thought of something larger is appealing it rules out so many destinations.
 
Flying Fox said:
Apparently no A380's have been sold to private buyers yet.
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Well at least one seems to be privately owned. This is an excerpt from an online "Escape" article at the Herald Sun website about Crown Hotel, MEL, yesterday:

“A guest requested to land his private jet — an Airbus A380 — at Essendon Airport. Due to the
size of the aircraft, the runway at Essendon was too small. With little notice to arrange an alternative, we contacted Melbourne Airport and negotiated to rent a private hangar for the landing and sought special permission from airport security to allow his driver to meet the plane.”
 
vetrade said:
Well at least one seems to be privately owned. This is an excerpt from an online "Escape" article at the Herald Sun website about Crown Hotel, MEL, yesterday:

“A guest requested to land his private jet — an Airbus A380 — at Essendon Airport. Due to the
size of the aircraft, the runway at Essendon was too small. With little notice to arrange an alternative, we contacted Melbourne Airport and negotiated to rent a private hangar for the landing and sought special permission from airport security to allow his driver to meet the plane.”
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I'm very surprised a "private" A380 landed at MEL and nobody noticed.....
 
docjames said:
I'm very surprised a "private" A380 landed at MEL and nobody noticed.....
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or planespotters anywhere else in the world. Pretty sure there will be talk on aviation forums about a privately owned A380 (or one with unique livery) if it was spotted.
 
For the disbelievers here's a quote from the International Business Times in 2015:

"………… the royals of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will remain rich from the petrodollars they have earned over the decades.

That affords them the luxuries that only the uber wealthy could afford such as the $300 million Airbus A380 jet that Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal bought in 2012 from Airbus and refurbished at the cost of $200 million which made the jet a flying palace.

The Airbus A380 is the same plane used by Singapore Airlines and Emirates, which could seat 800 passengers and fly 8,000 miles before refueling, reports Daily Mail.

The cost is after all just a drop in the bucket for the Middle Eastern royal whose net worth, according to Daily Mail, is more than $18 billion, on top of investments in profitable global firms such as News Corp, Apple, Citigroup and Twitter.

It was delivered green or just a basic shell and the prince hired Design Q for its interiors."

Now I'm NOT suggesting this plane is the one which landed at Tulla (nor do I care), but it is evidence of a privately owned A380. Make of that what you will........
 
vetrade said:
For the disbelievers here's a quote from the International Business Times in 2015:

"………… the royals of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will remain rich from the petrodollars they have earned over the decades.

That affords them the luxuries that only the uber wealthy could afford such as the $300 million Airbus A380 jet that Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal bought in 2012 from Airbus and refurbished at the cost of $200 million which made the jet a flying palace.

The Airbus A380 is the same plane used by Singapore Airlines and Emirates, which could seat 800 passengers and fly 8,000 miles before refueling, reports Daily Mail.

The cost is after all just a drop in the bucket for the Middle Eastern royal whose net worth, according to Daily Mail, is more than $18 billion, on top of investments in profitable global firms such as News Corp, Apple, Citigroup and Twitter.

It was delivered green or just a basic shell and the prince hired Design Q for its interiors."

Now I'm NOT suggesting this plane is the one which landed at Tulla (nor do I care), but it is evidence of a privately owned A380. Make of that what you will........
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This was in the same article the OP posted

Airbus has previously toyed with a corporate jet version of the A380 based on ex-lease superjumbos, but only one contract was inked – that by Prince Alwaleed of Saudi Arabia in 2007 – who later reneged on the deal, perhaps being happy enough with his private Boeing 747-400.
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vetrade said:
For the disbelievers here's a quote from the International Business Times in 2015:

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I have done a bit of a google and cannot find any private A380s.


There are many Jumbos, A320'setc. But I cannot find any A380s.
 
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I heard that one had been ordered, but also cancelled. As for going to Essendon, any person with that sort of aircraft would also have a reasonably professional operations crew...who would pretty quickly put silly ideas like that out to pasture.
 
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