The maintenance and repair arm of the Lufthansa Group has announced an exciting new second life for one of its Airbus A320s. The recently retired aircraft will be repurposed into a hydrogen aviation lab for research into sustainable aviation.
The aircraft, affectionately named “Halle (Saale),” will be based at Hamburg Airport, where Lufthansa Technik has its main base of operations.
A new life for Halle as a hydrogen testbed
The aircraft used for the research project initially entered service with the Lufthansa Group in the summer of 1991. It flew for the mainline Lufthansa fleet before transferring to the Germanwings from 2014 until 2017, according to data from ch-aviation.
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