Highest time aircraft ever...

[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.

 

[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.