CRJ-200 useful life?

[OzBushWhacker]

Rode on a 200 the other day and it seemed to be kinda long in the tooth.

Whats the design life of a CRJ?

Wonder how long will they last as they seem to average a huge number of cycles compared to hours flown.

 

[Socalplt]

SkyWest has a couple of them with over 30,000 hours. I think aircraft 403SW is closing in on 35,000hrs/ high 20K cycles. Not sure how long their good for.

 

[PoorJetDriver]

There are DC-9's out there with over 100,000 hours on them.

 

[BoilerUP]

Whats the design life of a CRJ?

About two years ago.

There are DC-9's out there with over 100,000 hours on them.

I seriously doubt any Stretch Challenger will make it to 100,000 hours, because most will have 85,000+ cycles on them at that point...

 

[PoorJetDriver]

Maybe not but the DC-9 was the original RJ.

 

[A-Track]

CRJ was built by the Canadians which is as good as being built by the French, so they don't have much life left.

 

[taylor01]

About two years ago.



I seriously doubt any Stretch Challenger will make it to 100,000 hours, because most will have 85,000+ cycles on them at that point...

DC-9 operated by NWA -
N921RW has 104500+ on it, N923RW has 103300 + on it , n915rw, n918rw, n916 rw, n922rw all have 100,000 plus hours on them.

N915rw is stored.

There are about 9 Crj 200 with 30K+ hours on them, mostly operated by Comair and Skywest

 

[BoilerUP]

The CRJ isn't built half as tough as any Douglas...

 

[LandRoverNut]

With the new Flap AD coming out they may all be parked by next year!

 

[TOOL CRIB]

With the new Flap AD coming out they may all be parked by next year!

That new flap AD rumor is the best rumor EVER!

 

[dbert]

I have an old sales document that says:

Designed for Annual Utilization of 4000 Flights with with an Economic Repair Life of 60,000 Hours or 80,000 Cycles

Hard to imagine that.

 

[whatitdoing?]

ASA will fly them till one crashes due to stress factures.

 

[Lazy8]

crj200

Hey guys come on... This is a great airplane!


......FOR ME TO POOP ON!

:beer:

 

[siucavflight]

The ERJ should last about 15K hours.

 

[Salukipilot4590]

The ERJ should last about 15K hours.

You fo serious?

 

[rjacobs]

The ERJ should last about 15K hours.

Now sure how many hours we have on some at XJT, but I know we have some with over 40k cycles. C checks are due every 10k cycles and we have airplanes approaching their 5th c check. There are only 5 c checks per EMB, no D checks exist.

 

[ex j-41]

CRJ was built by the Canadians which is as good as being built by the French, so they don't have much life left.

I guess you would rather mexicans building your airplanes?

And they are only partly built in Canada.
Fusulage is made at the shorts factory in Ireland.
Wings are made in Texas.
Engines are also made in the USA.
Useless avionics and autopilot is made in the USA.
Final assembly is done in Canada.

 

[propsarebest]

I guess you would rather mexicans building your airplanes?

And they are only partly built in Canada.
Fusulage is made at the shorts factory in Ireland.
Wings are made in Texas.
Engines are also made in the USA.
Useless avionics and autopilot is made in the USA.
Final assembly is done in Canada.

I thought the wings were made in Japan by Mitsubishi.

 

[Midnight Flyer]

Maybe not but the DC-9 was the original RJ.

Yeah Right.
The DC-9 runs circles around the BarbieJet.
At least the DC-9 has a true stand-up interior and you can actually store items in the overhead that are bigger than a coinpurse.

 

[PoorJetDriver]

The reference to the 9 was in response to the number of cycles the 200 would have because of it's regional flying.... We all know the 9 is much larger and more comfortable.

 

[siucavflight]

I was joking, but the EMB feels kind of cheap, dont know how long it could possibly hold up for. I imagine that we fly the crap out of ours here at Eagle.

 

[BIGGOAT]

I've flown both. No doubt that the CRJ would outlast an ERJ. There is a saying about the ERJ that goes something like this, "Don't pre-flight the plane too hard or you will break it!"

Goat

 

[rjacobs]

I am sure you all fly yours at eagle alot, I know at XJT the daily utilization for the XR on the CAL side is something north of 13 hours. I flew one a few weeks ago that came in from a red eye in the morning, had done enough legs that we had to start a new logbook page(how many are on there 8 legs) and when we got back to IAH it was going out in an hour for another redeye. I think we figured it would have flown 15+ hours that day.

 

[DX Rick]

I flew 7011 about 5 months ago. She had close to 40k hours on her.

 

[norskman2]

CRJ was built by the Canadians which is as good as being built by the French, so they don't have much life left.

As much fun as it is to bash on the French, who did after all make the Caravelle and the Falcon a couple of decent jets, although the CRJ is built by Canadians, it's of course based on the Canadair Challenger, which is based on the LearStar 600 which was sold to Canadair.

 

[flyboyike]

I flew 7011 about 5 months ago. She had close to 40k hours on her.

I flew it last month. Flies surprisingly well, IMHO.

 

[Brasilia Flyer]

That new flap AD rumor is the best rumor EVER!

Its real, and its coming. Get ready for the mother of all AD's. Its going to be a really huge pain in the you know what!

 

[yournextFO]

Its real, and its coming. Get ready for the mother of all AD's. Its going to be a really huge pain in the you know what!

I would assume this is why the company is finally activating the flap skew detection systems on the -200. Also noticed that the "Visually Inspect Flaps" placad has been removed and the speed placard changed back to 230 knots on airplanes with the mod. You'd think the company might send us a memo about this...

For the record, I'm still complying with the POH limitations until told otherwise...

 

[viper548]

Its real, and its coming. Get ready for the mother of all AD's. Its going to be a really huge pain in the you know what!

I think it's gonna be worse for the dispatchers than pilots. I think it will be something like if the vis is less than x, the flight to the alternate must be calculated with the flaps out. Procedure wise for pilots, we'll probably just delay flap extention.

My airline was going to have us do flaps 30 landings in the CRJ-700 for fuel conservation. Maybe we'll do reduced flap landings for lower fuel burn in case of "flaps fail"

 

[TCAS]

The ERJ should last about 15K hours.

Crack-free life on the Embraer is 20K hours. The crack-free life of the CRJ is 35K hours.