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So what's the latest status of this?

The French wikipedia page has a list of their tail numbers: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A330-743L

and flightradar24 has a list of recent flights for 2 of them:

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/f-gxlh

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/f-gxli

A few months ago I heard a louder than usual plane fly over, I checked online, it was one of them, flying to Hamburg but taking a different route than the routes I could see on fr24.

They're in use, you can see them in St Nazaire and Toulouse in France (among others) often enough

You can also see them in Hamburg quite often. I can see them from my balcony.

And they are usually louder than an A380. I can hear them taking off from about 4km away, no matter which direction.

Just another take-off: https://fr24.com/BGA231I/2857b4b9

Did not hear that, but the loud buzzing C130-Hercules https://fr24.com/HKY688/285738c9 7km up a few minutes before.

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