Welcome to our very first Minecraft Airbus A340! We finished this months ago and just recently renovated it. We did it in Deutsche Lufthansa AG livery, the livery of the launch customer of the Airbus A340 family, in 1993. Built to exact measurements, 1:1 (1 foot per block).


The Airbus A340 is a long-range, four-engine, wide-body commercial passenger jet airliner developed and produced by Airbus. The A340 was assembled at Toulouse, France. It seats up to 375 passengers in the standard variants and 440 in the stretched -600 series. Depending on the model, it has a range of between 6,700 to 9,000 nautical miles (12,400 to 16,700 km). The A340 is similar in design to the twin-engined A330 with which it was concurrently designed. Its distinguishing features are four high-bypass turbofan engines and three-bogie mainlanding gears.

The A340 was manufactured in four fuselage lengths. The initial variant, A340-300, which entered service in 1993, measured 59.39 metres (194.8 ft). The shorter -200 was developed next, and the A340-600 was a 15.91 metres (52.2 ft) stretch of the -200. The -600 was developed alongside the shorter A340-500, which would become the longest-ranged commercial airliner until the arrival of the Boeing 777-200LR. The two initial models were powered by the CFM56-5C, rated at 151 kilonewtons (34,000 lbf), while Rolls-Royce held exclusive powerplant rights to the extended-ranged and heavier -500 and -600 models, through the 267-kilonewton (60,000 lbf) Rolls-Royce Trent 500. The initial A340-200 and -300 variants share the fuselage and wing of the A330, while the -500 and -600 are longer and have larger wings.

Launch customers Lufthansa and Air France placed the A340 into service in March 1993. As of September 2011,379 orders had been placed (not including private operators), of which 375 were delivered. The most common type were the A340-300 model, with 218 aircraft delivered. Lufthansa is the biggest operator of the A340, having acquired 59 aircraft. The A340 is used on long-haul, trans-oceanic routes due to its immunity from ETOPS; however, with reliability and fuel efficiency in engines improving, airlines are starting to phase out the type in favour of more economical twinjets, such as the A330 and the Boeing 777. Airbus announced on 10 November 2011 that A340 production had been concluded. The A340 is to be succeeded by larger variants of the Airbus A350.

The A340-300 flies 295 passengers in a typical three-class cabin layout over 6,700 nautical miles (12,400 km). This is the initial version, having flown on 25 October 1991, and entered service with Lufthansa and Air France in March 1993. It is powered by four CFMI CFM56-5C engines and uses the Honeywell 331–350[A] APU,similar to the -200. Its closest competitor is theBoeing 777-200ER. The A340-300 will be superseded by the A350-900. 218 -300s were built in total.

The A340-300E, often mislabelled as A340-300X, has an increased MTOW of up to 275 tonnes (606,000 lb) and is powered by the more powerful 34,000 lbf (150 kN) thrust CFMI CFM56-5C4 engines. Typical range with 295 passengers is between 7,200 to 7,400 nautical miles (13,300 to 13,700 km). The largest operator of this type is Lufthansa, who has operated a fleet of 30 aircraft. The A340-300 Enhanced is the latest version of this model and was first delivered to South African Airways in 2003, with Air Mauritius receiving the A340-300 Enhanced into its fleet in 2006. It received newer CFM56-5C4/P engines and improved avionicsand fly-by-wire systems developed for the A340-500 and -600.

In July 2015, there were 141 A340-300s in service.

A340 Family

Role	Wide-Body Jet Airliner
National Origin	Multi-national
Manufacturer	Airbus
First flight	25 October 1991
Introduction	15 March 1993 with Lufthansa
Status	In Service
Primary users	Lufthansa Iberia South African Airways Swiss International Airlines
Years of Production	1991–2011
Number of aircraft built	377
Unit cost	A340-200: US$87 million (about DEM 163.6 million or £53 million) (1989) A340-300: US$238.0 million (£145.4 million or €164.1 million) (2011) A340-500: US$261.8 million (£160 million or €180.6 million) (2011) A340-600: US$275.4 million (£168.25 million or €190 million) (2011)

Specs:

Cockpit Crew:	2 Pilots
Seating Capacity:	295 (3-class, typical) 335 (2-class, typical) 375/440 (1-class, maximum)

Overall Length	63.60 metres (208 ft 8 in)
Wingspan	60.30 metres (197 ft 10 in)
Wing Area	361.6 square metres (3,892 sq ft)
Wing Sweepback	30 degrees
Overall height	16.85 metres (55 ft 3 in)
Maximum cabin width	5.28 metres (17 ft 4 in)
Fuselage width	5.64 metres (18 ft 6 in)
Cargo volume	162.8 cubic metres (5,750 cu ft)

Maximum take off weight (MTOW)	276,500 kilograms (609,600 lb)
Cruising Speed	Mach 0.82 (871 km/h/537 mph at 11,000 m/36,000 ft)
Maximum Operating Speed	Mach 0.86 (913 km/h/563 mph at 11,000 m/36,000 ft)
Maximum range, fully loaded	7,400 nautical miles (13,700 km; 8,500 mi)
Take off distance at MTOW (sea level, ISA)	3,100 metres (10,200 ft)
Maximum fuel capacity	147,850 litres (32,520 imp gal; 39,060 US gal)
Service ceiling	12,500 metres (41,000 ft)
Engines (×4)	CFM56-5C
Thrust (×4)	139–151 kilonewtons (31,000–34,000 lb)

Related Development: 

• Airbus A330
  

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era

• Boeing 747-400
  
• Boeing 777
  

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