Highest Airframe Hours/Cycles

[CopilotDoug]

Anyone care to chime in with what they've seen in the logbooks? I've seen DC-10s for sale with +113,000hours. I imagine that some of the early 747s or DC-8s can beat that.

 

[big pimpn']

Anyone care to chime in with what they've seen in the logbooks? I've seen DC-10s for sale with +113,000hours. I imagine that some of the early 747s or DC-8s can beat that.

I heard evergreen is flying the oldest whale on the planet. I would be interested to find out how many hours she has on her.

 

[propsarebest]

Nope, I think Kalitta has an older one. Our last -100 flying is line number 72. Last time i looked, it had like 115K hours on it.

 

[navigatro]

I know of a Whale that had more hours on her than any other....

My ex wife!!!

 

[acpilot]

Ok, look at this. I think it's probably a typo, but if it's not...480,337 TTAF.

http://www.controller.com/listings/...046.htm?guid=E7E4280CE9D941FAB7ECD55F726A8D02

 

[ke4lir]

I know I already lost the race....But the DC-3 I used to fly had 79,000 on the airframe when I parked it.

 

[#%&@$!]

I know of a Whale that had more hours on her than any other....

My ex wife!!!

I think we're talking airplanes, not blimps

 

[Gearmonkey]

Ok, look at this. I think it's probably a typo, but if it's not...480,337 TTAF.

http://www.controller.com/listings/...046.htm?guid=E7E4280CE9D941FAB7ECD55F726A8D02

Yeah that has to be a typo. I am not good at math, but I think that many hours equals nearly 55 years.

And I thought our FedEx Falcons had a lot at 32-33,000 hours!

 

[ultrarunner]

I would think most of NWA's DC-9's are over 100k. Think about it....12 hrs a day or so utilization over a year is about 4300 hrs a year....times 30 years...is a 130k hrs.

Think of some of hours on those -10's that have recently been parked...

I think I remember something about MidEx re-locating the data plates on some of their old -9's when it was noticed by pax they were built in the early 60's! I'm sure their old -9's had MEGA hours on 'em before they were parked.

 

[CopilotDoug]

I would think most of NWA's DC-9's are over 100k. Think about it....12 hrs a day or so utilization over a year is about 4300 hrs a year....times 30 years...is a 130k hrs.

Think of some of hours on those -10's that have recently been parked...

I think I remember something about MidEx re-locating the data plates on some of their old -9's when it was noticed by pax they were built in the early 60's! I'm sure their old -9's had MEGA hours on 'em before they were parked.

You can scroll down to Northwest...

http://www.airwaysmag.com/att.html?type=view&article_id=145&junk=.pdf

 

[Rookiy]

Flew a whale at Southern with over 130,000 hrs

 

[dojetdriver]

I know I already lost the race....But the DC-3 I used to fly had 79,000 on the airframe when I parked it.

With that plane, isn't it just getting broke in at that point?