Highest Time Airplane?

[500and2]

Check your MX Logs....... I want to see who has flown an airplane with the most hours on it.....

We just retired a B1900C back to Raytheon with +40K hrs.... (I heard it was the highest time B190 in the world!!!)

-Bless Our Troops-

Jackson

 

[Airpiraterob]

hmmm

its not the record but..

we werent keeping track of hours but we were flying an E110 with 57,000 cycles on it. and ones in mothballs with 5,000 hours left on the timed life airframe (60k). they'll probably get an extension on it somehow tho when they get it running again. anyone have a good deal on some -34's?

somewhere on the east coast is that DC-3 with 130k hours on it or something. still taking passengers too i think. i dunno where it is or who has it tho. every now and again it gets on discovery wings or something.

 

[OtterFO]

I do believe MAR or ASquared may some input here. How many hours do those old 6's have?

I've flown a couple of Twin Otters with twice relifed wings on it. I've forgotten the lifespan of the Twin Otter wings.

Today I was flying the lowest time navajo I have ever flown. 28,7XX TT

 

[LearLove]

If I remember correctly.....

At one time in the early/mid 90's PBA had a DC-3 in the NE (I think) that was the highest time and oldest aircraft in comm service. Can anyone back this up?

 

[FearlessFreep]

Highest time aircraft are going to be relative to the type. Smaller aircraft usually fly shorter legs, so their total time will not be as high as larger transport aircraft, which may have a smaller cycles count.

I have heard of some high time BE-99s operated by Ameriflight.

I know that there are a pretty high number of DC-8s that are well over 100K hours. I believe that there are a number of 747s that may exceed that.

The DC-3 with 130K is pretty impressive but remember that the aircraft is close to 60 years old.

I would be interested to hear the numbers on the -6's

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!

I've heard of a DC-9, currently in operation, with over 70K hours.

Cliff
GRB

 

[Capthuff]

I just dropped off our CJ2 for it's 125 hour check.
LOL

sorry
Cappy

 

[Freight Dog]

Ameriflight has some of the oldest airplanes in business. I flew the oldest living Piper Lance there - serial number 2 - who knows how much flight time there is on it. Serial number 1 crashed during flight test at Piper.

 

[metrodriver]

Flight International runs an aging aircraft session couple of times a year: NWA has a few 120.000 hr DC9's, a few convairs around with that time, DC8'swith 100.000+.
I flew for Ameriflight. They sold a falcon 20 in1995 with 90.000 hours, reportedly the highest time F20 then. The Pa32 Lances had around 16000 hrs in 1998, racking up 1000hrs/ year. Be99 times were very high too. The maintenance was good, and the result is that they were the a.d. generator for each type they got.

 

[JBcrjca]

The latest issue of Airways magazine has an article on the beloved Beech 99. It has a pic of Ameriflights' N34AK, noting that it's the highest time BE-99 in the world, just under 50,000 hrs total.

I recently looked at the log for SkyWests' original EMB120, 186SW...it has in excess of 36,000 hours on it, still running strong. And back in the early 90s, I flew a BE-58 for USCheck that had 12,000+ hours on it. If any AirNet guys reading this get a chance to fly 1653W, I'd be curious to know how many hours it has on it now. It's gotta be well over 20K.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, on 3/31 I flew a bird that was delivered from Montreal on 3/27...it had 31 hrs total, 19 cycles on it. New car smell, and no filth/dustbunnies in the cockpit yet. That was pretty sweet, a rare treat for me.