Programme milestones

• A400M First Flight

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• Engine Flight Clearance

• Ground test hours past 2,500

January

• FTB second flight achieves maximum power

• FTB first flight

November 

• FTB low speed taxi trials begin
• Ground testing hours pass 2,000

September

• FTB ground running achieves 100% power
• Delivery of engines for aircraft MSN02 completed

June 

• First ground runs of the TP400-D6 engine & Ratier-Figeac propeller installed upon the Marshall-owned C-130 test aircraft. 
• Ground testing hours pass 1,500

April 

• Successful completion of bird strike & water ingestion tests; attained required 150 hours of cyclic endurance running under loads for the power gearbox. 
• Flight Clearance Note for the FTB engine issued.

February

• Flight Test Engines for the first Airbus A400M delivered & installation underway at the final assembly line of the A400M military transport aircraft in Seville. 
• Endurance tests successfully completed on ITP indoor test bed located at the Ajalvir plant, close to Madrid (Spain) & on dedicated power rig for the gearbox at the Avio site in Torino (Italy). 

• First engine to test in Sevilla.
• Delivery of flying test bed engine.

• First engine test with propeller.

• Critical design review. 
• First Control Monitoring System test.
• First ground test. 

• Preliminary design review.
• First Intermediate Pressure Compressor test. 

• EPI selected by Airbus Military to supply TP400-D6. 
• EPI opens its Madrid liaison office.

• Creation of Europrop International