Airbus A380 Owner's Workshop Manual: 2005 to presentThe Airbus A380 is the worlds most recognised and most talked about airliner since the Boeing 747 and Concorde appeared in the skies in the late 1960s. Designed to challenge Boeing's monopoly in the large aircraft market, it made its first flight in April 2005, entering commercial service two years later with Singapore Airlines. This jet has become so popular that every four minutes 24 hours a day, seven days a week an A380 is taking off or landing