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It looks like based on how haphazardly they tried to paint over the logos that it's formerly D-AIMK of Lufthansa.

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/32822-lufthansa-a380-brin...

Based on this landing 3 days ago from LAX, and based on the aircraft location being "Rolling Hills Estates, California", I suspect this was the ferry flight in or around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6jfARHff8A

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I don't think it’s that, D-AIMK is in the air right now. Also, they stupidly list the aircraft location as Rolling Hills Estates because the broker is based there. LAX is the only nearby airport that could handle an A380, but it’s a very poor place to store an A380 for sale.

Yeah, I laughed when I saw the location as Rolling Hills Estates; while quite a few RHE residents could probably afford this airplane, there’s not a chance in hell that you’d actually be able to get it anywhere near there. The nearest airport would be Torrance, but while you might be able to land an A380 there, I highly doubt you’d ever be able to get it off the ground again if you did so.

> but while you might be able to land an A380 there,

as my old flight instructor used to say, "you can land a plane anywhere, once"

Considering the N380D number is wrong (it's a 1969-made 2013-deregistered Beechcraft P-68), the photo is probably junk too. The seller may never even have been within a hundred nautical miles of the plane, and just grabbed random photos of the internet.

FWIW there are only 5 A380s registered in the USA [https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/MMSResult?St...], I see no indication for it being any of these though. Probably foreign-owned and just listed for sale in the US.

I don't think they painted it over. Looks like it is airbrushed in photopshop. Check out the top of the tail or the second door.

I have just flown one of those from Munich to Bangkok (Lufthansa). The pilots were so nice and even let me take a pic inside the cabin after we landed

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