Emirates Airbus A380 registrations

The Emirates Airbus A380 registrations record links the 123 Airbus A380 aircraft delivered new to Emirates with their manufacturer serial numbers (MSNs), certified engine variants and dated fleet category. Emirates reported 116 A380-800s in its fleet at 31 March 2026. Seven earlier deliveries are recorded separately as historic aircraft; a parked aircraft remains part of the fleet and is not treated as retired merely because it is temporarily out of service.^{[1]Annual Report 2025–2026The Emirates Group · c.ekstatic.net · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details[2]A380 customer list, February 2022Airbus · airbus.com · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details[3]Emirates fleet details and historyPlanespotters.net · planespotters.net · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details}

Scope and method

This register uses the Emirates registration carried at delivery, the Airbus MSN and the certified A380 variant. Airbus's final customer list provides the control total of 123 Emirates deliveries. Emirates' audited annual report provides the 116-aircraft fleet total at 31 March 2026, while a registration-level production register distinguishes the seven historic aircraft from the 116 registrations still assigned to the fleet.^{[2]A380 customer list, February 2022Airbus · airbus.com · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details[1]Annual Report 2025–2026The Emirates Group · c.ekstatic.net · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details[3]Emirates fleet details and historyPlanespotters.net · planespotters.net · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details[4]Emirates Airbus A380 registration production searchPlanespotters.net · planespotters.net · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details}

The fleet column is deliberately dated. It does not claim that every listed aircraft was airworthy or flying on 31 March: the operator's total included aircraft in maintenance, retrofit or temporary parking. Conversely, an absent flight on a tracking service is not evidence of retirement. Current operational status should be changed only when a recent operator, regulator or airframe source identifies the registration concerned.

The MSN is the permanent manufacturer identity of an airframe. It is not a registration, delivery sequence number or engine serial number. MSN gaps reflect Airbus's production allocation and do not imply missing Emirates aircraft. The complete programme context is recorded in the Airbus A380 production list.

Current registrations

The following 116 registrations reconcile exactly with Emirates' audited fleet count. In Emirates fleet is a dated fleet-census category, not a claim that an aircraft was active on a particular day.^{[1]Annual Report 2025–2026The Emirates Group · c.ekstatic.net · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details[3]Emirates fleet details and historyPlanespotters.net · planespotters.net · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details}

Historic registrations

Seven of the 123 delivered registrations were outside the current Emirates fleet in the registration-level source. Disposal descriptions can change as dismantling proceeds, so the status wording below reflects the source available on 29 August 2026.^{[4]Emirates Airbus A380 registration production searchPlanespotters.net · planespotters.net · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details}

Registration blocks and engine variants

All Emirates A380 registrations use the United Arab Emirates A6- nationality mark. The fleet occupies selected marks in the A6-ED, A6-EE, A6-EO, A6-EU and A6-EV blocks. The sequence is not chronological throughout: production MSNs 162 and 167, for example, received A6-EVB and A6-EVA before later A6-EO and A6-EU deliveries. The MSN column, rather than alphabetical order, is therefore the reliable production key.^{[5]Airbus A380 production listFlightradar24 · flightradar24.com · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details}

Registrations through A6-EUL are A380-861s powered by Engine Alliance GP7200 engines. The final 33 aircraft, A6-EUM through A6-EVS in this delivery register, are A380-842s powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines. Rolls-Royce described the agreement as taking the Emirates Trent-powered A380 fleet to 33 aircraft. The variant identifies the certified powerplant installation; it does not identify the serial number of an engine currently fitted to an individual airframe.^{[6]Rolls-Royce welcomes Emirates agreementRolls-Royce · rolls-royce.com · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details[7]EASA Type Certificate Data Sheet A.110European Union Aviation Safety Agency · easa.europa.eu · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details[4]Emirates Airbus A380 registration production searchPlanespotters.net · planespotters.net · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details}

The range description is a compact index, not permission to invent missing marks. Only registrations appearing in the tables are part of this record.

Delivery milestones

A6-EDA, MSN 011, was delivered on 28 July 2008 as Emirates' first A380 and entered commercial service between Dubai and New York on 1 August. It later became the first Emirates A380 retirement: its final commercial flight was Singapore–Dubai on 8 March 2020 after 6,319 flights. Emirates stated that reusable components were removed before the remaining airframe was dismantled and repurposed in the United Arab Emirates.^{[8]Emirates first retired A380 to be repurposed in the UAEEmirates · emirates.com · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details}

A6-EVS, MSN 272, was delivered on 16 December 2021. It was Emirates' 123rd A380 and the final new A380 delivered by Airbus to any customer. The high MSN compared with the 123-aircraft Emirates count reflects the wider programme sequence and unused MSN allocations, not 272 Emirates aircraft.^{[9]Emirates completes A380 fleet with 123rd deliveryEmirates · emirates.com · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details[10]The A380, Emirates and flying public: a winning combinationAirbus · aircraft.airbus.com · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details}

Configuration and retrofit cautions

Registration is not a cabin configuration. Emirates publishes several A380 layouts, and aircraft can move between them during refurbishment. In May 2026 A6-EUX became the first former two-class Emirates A380 converted to a three-class layout with Business, Premium Economy and Economy cabins. That sourced change is specific to A6-EUX and must not be copied to other registrations without evidence.^{[11]Emirates completes first retrofit of a two-class A380Emirates · emirates.com · Accessed 2026-08-29Open source details}

Likewise, the current registration tables do not assign individual aircraft to routes. Emirates reported that the A380 served 53 destinations in the 2025–26 financial year, but rotations, maintenance and substitutions change frequently. A flight history establishes only that a registration operated a flight at that time; it does not establish a permanent base, route or active status.

Data-quality notes

• The 116-aircraft figure is the audited Emirates census at 31 March 2026. The registration-level database was checked on 29 August 2026 and also recorded 116 current and seven historic Emirates A380s.

• Current in this article means included in the operator fleet, not necessarily airborne or serviceable on the access date.

• Registrations are kept with their MSN even after retirement, because the MSN remains the airframe's stable identifier.

• Engine family follows the certified A380-861 or A380-842 variant. Individual engine serial numbers are not inferred.

• Cabin layouts, liveries, lease ownership and temporary parking are mutable attributes and require their own dated sources.

• Airbus's 123-delivery total includes all seven aircraft now in the historic table.

Related pages

• Emirates

• Emirates fleet

• Emirates Airbus A380 fleet

• Airbus A380

• Airbus A380 production list

• Dubai International Airport

Sources

• Annual Report 2025–2026 — The Emirates Group, fleet at 31 March 2026

• A380 customer list, February 2022 — Airbus

• Emirates A380 fleet details and history — Planespotters.net, accessed 29 August 2026

• Emirates A380 registration production search — Planespotters.net, accessed 29 August 2026

• Airbus A380 production list — Flightradar24, accessed 29 August 2026

• Emirates completes A380 fleet with 123rd delivery — Emirates

• Image source and licence: Emirates A380 A6-EDM — Lasse Fuss, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons