Highest Time Airplane?

[dashtrasher]

At one time in the early/mid 90's PBA ha

I Believe the tail number was 136PB, in the early 80's it had around 93,000 hrs onit then and 150 engine changes.

 

[LearLove]

I'd believe it..........

I theory and what now looks like practice the DC-3 should last forever given no corrosion. Say you had a dc3 and used it between dca and lga at 9000ft or so, thats all you ever need as long as the pilots didn't bend it. the air loads at 160-180 mph are low especially for the tank that the dc3 is.

Also daily flying of an unpressurized aircraft allows air to flow thru the airframe this keeps it dry and corrosion free kind of like keeping it in the desert. This is why we'll see sh!tboxes and 99's for the next 100 years.

Even the dash fits here, now we all know its pressurized by it stays at lower altitudes where the diff is lower which makes for less stress in the pressure vessle. I think a few of ALG's dashes are around 30,000 if they haven't gone over it yet.

 

[jbDC9]

Speaking of US Check-Airnet, how about those Cessna 310s? When I flew´em from 1990 to 1993 they had anywhere from 10 to 13,000 hrs. I kinda crunched up a 13K hr machine at St Paul, totalled it... not my fault though, the prop came off! I see them around from time to time, they gotta be around 20,000 or more I´d guess...

 

[WrightAvia]

I jumped out of a DC-3 called Mr Douglas

I think Mr. Douglas was used at a dropzone in florida. It was also used in the Nick Nolte movie, "Mullholland Falls". They got paid to belly land Mr Douglas on the salt flats, with the gear up to film a sceen for the movie.

But anyway, they had better than 60,000 hours on the plane and that was 7 years ago.

I didn't actually fly that high time plane, but I did fart in it. And there was a whole plane load of skydivers that enjoyed that moment with me. Do you think that the troops that rode in that DC-3 would have ever imagined that people would jump for fun out of that plane...so many years after the war was over.

 

[skyking1976]

At one time Midwest Express (now Midwest Airlines) was flying the highest time DC-9. I believe that it had around 150K hours. Don't quote me on that though. Midex guys, how about a little help.

Skyking

 

[jetdriven]

air midwest has a few 1900's with 40,000 cycles on them. Remember, the oldest of these planes was built in 1991.

that would be about 35,000 hours.

I heard Air Tran donated a DC-9 with 150K on it to a museum in florida?? Is that true?

 

[AceCrackshot]

Lakes has a few C models that were very high cycle, don't remember exactly how much, but our impression was that they were among the high 1900's in world.

Piedmont operates the high time/cycle Dash 8 in the world 906HA.
DinoDash is used in all the Bombardier PowerPoint presentations as an example of the ruggedness of the 8.

 

[LR25]

906HA, not a bad machine, people give it alot of grief, but its actualy a pretty cool (as in temp) airplane in the back in the summer.

I used to work for ATI as a mechanic on the DC-8, and back in 97 867BX a DC-8-63 had about 87K hours and about 45K cycles.

I think Academy Airlines in Griffin, GA has the second highest time DC-3, I believe around 90K hours, not sure though.

 

[500and2]

GLA

yep.... we're flying on of your planes...

N45GL (it has over 40K on it) -1900C

amazing what these planes can handle. (going to max diff. on every other leg...... maybe that explains why they all fly so crooked!!!)

Beautiful day here in ANC...... might actually pull out the shorts.

 

[AceCrackshot]

About 30000 V1 cuts in training, too.