A400M question

[Col7777]

Forgive my ignorance as I'm not very well up on military aircraft and movements etc, I do play around a lot with ai in the sim and recently downloaded some of the great ai aircraft from MAIW to make the sim a bit more realistic.
I know there isn't an ai version of the A400M yet as far as I know that is, but the question/s are, are that actually flying yet and if so where to and from, or will they eventually take the routes of the C130's and other transport aircraft?

[merlin101]

Prototype is yet to fly, been alot of problems with engines i think. Maybe someone else will have more info.
Dave

[CelticWarrior]

Janes recently reported that the engine manufacturer was having problems with the powerplant and that Airbus had put aircraft production on hold (ISTR 6 months). The prototype is yet to fly.

[Col7777]

Thanks guys, I knew some of you would know, I told you I was ignorant to all this.

[sprocky]

IIRC six frames were built / are under construction while others have been put on hold due to the problems mentioned above.

[VulcanDriver]

I know there isn't an ai version of the A400M yet as far as I know that is, but the question/s are, are that actually flying yet and if so where to and from, or will they eventually take the routes of the C130's and other transport aircraft?

According to MOD website

A total of 25 C-130K aircraft have been replaced by the C-130J and future plans include the replacement of the remainder of the fleet by 25 A400M strategic airlift aircraft in 2011.

John