Highest time aircraft ever...

[stupidpilot]

I fly some DC-10's with well over 100k on them.

 

[bocefus]

Lovely, the design life of the KC-10 is 30,000 hrs

 

[aucfi]

On the opposite end of the spectrum I used to frequently fly a 1969 172 with 400 hours total. Original owner bought it brand new and died. The wife never sold it and it sat in a barn for 30 years when the flight school I was working at acquired it.

Also my dad's J3 is a 1946 currently with about 2200 total, 1100 of which were within the last 10 years of ownership.

 

[b707guy]

One of our DC-8-73s is rapidly approaching 100k, and I understand that we've ordered the required parts and kits to put it through another heavy check. It's still flying full time, so I guess it hasn't quite reached that milestone just yet, but it will very soon. A few others are within a few thousand hours of 100k. Most of our -71s are still in the 80k range. I don't remember what our -62s and -72 have, but they're relatively low for their age, 40s-60s.

B-52 and KC-135 alert duties sure kept their times low, but they've been pretty busy these last years and so I'm sure their lifecycles are coming up more quickly than in the past.

 

[Windsor]

Ameristar currently has the worlds oldest flying Falcon 20. Has 44K plus on it. Used to be an old Fed Ex plane. You can still see the old tail number etched on the panel. N6FE

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

Not a cargo bird (yet) but...

I wonder how many hours Piedmont's oldest Dash 8's have. Mx tells me the two highest cycle dashes in the world (907 and 906HA) are here. If they have better than 60,000 cycles, then that'd be a fair number of hours on the airframes.

 

[bizzum]

Not a cargo bird (yet) but...

I wonder how many hours Piedmont's oldest Dash 8's have. Mx tells me the two highest cycle dashes in the world (907 and 906HA) are here. If they have better than 60,000 cycles, then that'd be a fair number of hours on the airframes.

I took one of the ALG birds...(don't remember the tail number off hand) up to BGR for a C check, it was built in 1990, and they said it had almost 70,000 cycles on it. This was almost 2 years ago.

 

[Hung Start]

I know this is toning down this thread a bit, but I would love to know how many cycles some of Cape Air's 402's have. 12 hour days and 20 minute stage life over 28 years or so??

Great airplane.

Hung

 

[bocefus]

They actually donated one of their hight time aircraft for an FAA aging aircraft study, it had over 25K hours

 

[MarineGrunt]

I've heard that the B-52's and KC-135's are actually pretty low-hours aircraft, despite their age, and that re-engining proposals are usually stifled due to comparisons of cost vs. life remaining on the engines installed. The govt. can buy a lot of tax-free JP8 for the difference.

I used to fly N17334 (AA DC-3 Flagship Detroit) and remember it having ~48600hours in 1996, and Be-18T's with between 25000 & 30000 hrs.(a lot for GA aircraft).

Most KC135s I've flown have about 15k on them....

 

[Hawker rider]

I flew a 747-200 with an airframe total flight time of 128.000hrs and and almost 23500 cycles, according to Boeing it was the highest time and cycle airframe of any 747 presently in service

 

[RedGuy]

I know this is toning down this thread a bit, but I would love to know how many cycles some of Cape Air's 402's have. 12 hour days and 20 minute stage life over 28 years or so??

Great airplane.

Hung

I fly an old Cape air 402, I was told it has about 15,000 cycles on it. Which wasn't as bad as you would think considering it only has just over 15,000 hrs on it. Of coarse we've had it for almost 10 years and our average leg is usually more like 2-3 hours so I'm sure that brought the numbers down quite abit. I also fly a couple 310's with 19,000 hours on them, which I think is ALOT for a 310. I also know of some Convairs with quite a few hours on them. I think one of IFL's has something like 80-90,000 hrs on it.

 

[AvroGuy]

who cares about the -52 or the kc s what about the EC-135s specifically the looking glass jets and the E-3. not much alert but a lot of time in orbit some where in the world.

 

[spotterpilot]

When I completed initial DC3 training at PBA in 1986 we were given a certificate that said "worlds highest time airliner" and it had a drawing of N36PB. I cant remember how many hours it had when the airline shut down but I think it was around 90k. Dont know what ever happened to it but Id like to fly it again.

 

[414Flyer]

When I completed initial DC3 training at PBA in 1986 we were given a certificate that said "worlds highest time airliner" and it had a drawing of N36PB. I cant remember how many hours it had when the airline shut down but I think it was around 90k. Dont know what ever happened to it but Id like to fly it again.

Here it is, it is not flying anymore but is on display.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/651846/M/

 

[texarkana]

My claim to fame is putting the 40,000th hour on a Shorts!

 

[4fanman]

I've flown a DC-9 that has 67k on it.

I got to fly the oldest Caravan in commercial operation, S/N 005. It was feeding for UPS with Superior Aviation, but now she is carrying jumpers somewhere in Europe. No one really shed any tears when it was sold.

The lowest time a/c I got to fly was N528XJ. It was the newest AVRO in the Mesaba fleet at the time and had 180 hours on it. Sure was purdy.

 

[jtrain609]

The highest time beech 99 is N34AK at Ameriflight with 50700 and shes still going. I just flew her last week.

I know people that avoid that aircraft as much as they possibly can.

 

[belchfire]

I flew a Cessna 207 that had almost 20,000 hours on it...

 

[mrswede]

Comair's oldest CRJ has about 35K on it and several are above 30K.