Highest time aircraft ever...

[MaxForwardSpeed]

Talk about old

NWA is getting rid of thier 9's at 100,000 to 104,000 cycles. The airframe itself, per Douglas, is built to 250,000 cycles. OLD aircraft.....

 

[LR25]

I have flown the worlds lowest time DC-9-30, 14,000 hrs. Thats what I was told anyway.

ATI had a 63 series DC-8 about 10 years ago with 90K+ hours and almost 50K cycles. 867BX

 

[halfbank]

Supposedly N740SA at Southern Air sets a record every time it takes off... Was told it was the highest time 747 in the world.

 

[Jonahproject]

Dont' let Connie know about that plane, he might go out and buy that pos. Several birds over at Kalitta are in the 90k range.

 

[Dream2fly]

I believe its sistership N746SA

I believe that Southern Air has the highest time 747-200 still flying. Not sure how many hours though. It sets a new record every time it flys. N748SA

I have heard that Boeing is not going to sponser for anymore Airframe lifetime extention on 746SA. which means that it will become bunch of beer cans soon.

 

[CopilotDoug]

Flew a C172 with 11 hours on it, pretty tight rigging

 

[propsarebest]

Same thing happened recently to one of our -100's. Boeing pulled all manf. support for it, because it cycled out.

I have heard that Boeing is not going to sponser for anymore Airframe lifetime extention on 746SA. which means that it will become bunch of beer cans soon.

 

["Luke"]

Old JAL -100's meet their end becouse of the cycles on them. They were used on multiple short hops throughout their life. I don't know how cycle's it takes before they are shredded though.

 

[OzBushWhacker]

Flew the highest time C210 in the southern hemisphere. Believe it had over 20k (23k i think). Still flying.

 

[metrodriver]

many DC10's out there with around 150.000 hrs and still going strong