Does PSA still fly those cool DO328s?

[aa73]

I'm guessing not, haven't seen any around lately.

Only thing cooler looking was the 328JET!

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[Blue Dude]

Long since gone, replaced with plain vanilla Canadairs. It's too bad, 'cause they were very cool.

 

[aa73]

Thanks, Blue Dude. When did they retire them?

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[Mr Wu]

I heard Colgan is looking at them for the CAL stuff.

 

[BoilerUP]

Only Dork props I've seen out there belong to Dow Corning...

 

[Prop2Jet]

We are looking at them,,, where did u hear this rumor?

 

[328dude]

Thanks, Blue Dude. When did they retire them?

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The last flight on them was Sept of 04. So sad, it really was a cool airplane...

 

[WMUSIGPI]

The only Dorniers left in airline service are the 328 Jets at Skyway. There are several jets an props showing up in the 135 and 91 corporate shuttle world.

 

[KeroseneSnorter]

I'm guessing not, haven't seen any around lately.

Only thing cooler looking was the 328JET!

73

They were cool....back when they were painted white, then Wolfman changed the color to dark blue and they ceased being cool in the summer!! Both packs wheezing just to keep it a comfy 90 degrees!! All except 328LS......no apu in that thing, and if PSA owned a working air cart I never saw it, just finding a working GPU could take half a day!!


Oh wait.....you guys are talking about the studly factor huh?..........

 

[Smoking Man]

Still miss the Dornier even 328ls.

:crying:

 

[KeroseneSnorter]

Still miss the Dornier even 328ls.

:crying:

You can probably pick one up cheap right now! I saw a pack of PSA's old birds at Grand strand a couple of years ago....dunno where they are now.

Still see a few in europe running around, but even there they are getting rare. It was a fun airplane though wasn't it? At the time, with the exception of the P-3 and maybe a Convair 580, if it was turning a propeller, the Dork could out run it. Made you feel kind of bad for the guy in a 500 Citation when you passed his "jet" in a turboprop.

 

[LearLove]

Nov 1999 - PHL

do328 takes off 35 and goes twards MXE (westbound prob to DAY or something) then we in the dash take off 35 and go west for MXE going to MDT. At the same time as we take off 35 a mainline F100 launches off 27L and is going west for MXE. We all check on with 124.35 and Philly slows the 328 10 knots to put the F100 ahead. A few minutes later philly calls for the 328 to slow another 10 knots, again to put the F100 infront. A few more minutes pass and now philly calls the 328 and says max fwd speed I'm putting the F100 behind you. Then over the radio you here "thats one fast TP" a few seconds of silence then "NO - thats just one slow jet". Then thoes guys got handed off to NY center while we continued to bounce around at 5000ft, dodging gliders and cessna/pipers enroute to MDT.

 

[PunchTheClown]

I wish I had gotten a chance to fly it. They werent running 328 classes anymore when I got to PSA but clearly it was a much better airline before the jets arrived, for several reasons.

 

[Smoking Man]

Yo, clown

You hit the nail on the head, when the Dorniers left, PSA changed and not for the better.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1035210/L/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1011146/L/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1010997/L/


But some of the Dorniers have found a new home.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0970959/L/

 

[theskyking]

Man, I miss that plane.

 

[John Pennekamp]

You can probably pick one up cheap right now! I saw a pack of PSA's old birds at Grand strand a couple of years ago....dunno where they are now.

Still see a few in europe running around, but even there they are getting rare. It was a fun airplane though wasn't it? At the time, with the exception of the P-3 and maybe a Convair 580, if it was turning a propeller, the Dork could out run it. Made you feel kind of bad for the guy in a 500 Citation when you passed his "jet" in a turboprop.

They are still parked in MYR. I heard that someone tried to buy some, but returned them because they were so corroded that it would take more to put them in service than they were worth. Gotta wonder why someone would park a fleet of airplanes on the beach instead of the desert?!?

 

[PoorJetDriver]

The entire empennage is composite... Wonder how much corrosion there really is?

 

[Blue Dude]

Still miss the Dornier even 328ls.

:crying:

Yeah, I'm right there with you. :bawling:

 

[Blue Dude]

You hit the nail on the head, when the Dorniers left, PSA changed and not for the better.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1035210/L/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1011146/L/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1010997/L/

Man, did you have to post those? I feel like I just watched a snuff film.

 

[Smoking Man]

Man, did you have to post those? I feel like I just watched a snuff film.

This one will crush you then,

First sit down then open at your own risk.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0873009/L/

 

[mullet]

Remember the freaking drive thru window they installed on
the cockpit door after 9/11...classic.

 

[Hulk Hogan]

I think Phizer has one. I heard it on the radio around DTW with in the last year easy. On its way to or from Holland, MI. Prop Job I believe.

 

[PoorJetDriver]

Johnson Controls has a DoJet that flies during the week from Yip to Tulip City. They bought it new.