Highest Time Airplane?

[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.

 

[SabreFlyR]

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...

I flew the 310's at Wright Express in 1988 before they were bought by US Check. They were worn out then. Saw one while passing thru Indy a couple weeks ago. Amazing what a little paint will do for them though.

 

[jetdriven]

we had a 401 at texstar that had over 30,000 hours on it. It actually flew pretty good. The airframe made a lot of niose in turbulence though.

 

[Dr4uh60l]

I get a little nerous flying through moderate turbulence in a 210 with 18,000+ hours on it. How much can these things take? We also have a Baron that has been geared up 6 times---the tail # ends in "TA"and is called "Twisted Airplane" because it flies crooked.

 

[LXApilot]

Old Birds

I remember flying a Cessna 172 when I was in college that was rumored to have around 40,000 hours... it was a late sixties model that had been flying hard in training and put away wet ever since it was delivered. Old ex-American Airlines DC10 N140AA has 93,912 hours on 21,412 cycles, and an ex-United Airlines DC10-30 with 92,507 on 22,286 cycles. There is an old Delta 737-200 for sale that advertises with 72,793 hours on the airframe.

 

[LJDRVR]

The highest time CE172 is in Oregon with 26K. I'm pretty sure the highest time DC-3 is still the North Central Airlines ship 18 in the Henry Ford museum, at 81,535TT as of August 1964. (It flew till 1967) I'm not sure what it retired with, maybe someone knows. For a long time, #18 was the highest time airframe in the world, since surpassed by some of those first generation jet airliners.

 

[B190Captain]

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

It did not happen to be UB-1 which was N190GA was it?

 

[hydroflyer]

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...

Good guess! Apparently 37575 is right about on the mark of 20,000. Still has some of the original paint left to.

 

[EX_CV580FR8Dawg]

HI time

I can't remember the hours or cycles exactly, as it has been almost two years since I flew the 580. I recall seeing over 75,000+ cycles on one of the aircraft. It was an ex Allegheny Aircraft(5810) and is now 151FL. That was in the summer of 2001, so i would imagine theyve added quite a few since then

 

[avbug]

Bear in mind that total hours and years mean nothing. The environment the airplane has flown in during that time, the type of flying it's done, and it's maintenance history all play critical roles in the lifespan of the airplane.

The highest time airframe I've flown in a light airplane was a Cessna 206 with a little over 23,000 hours. It was still a very strong airplane.

I've flown other airplanes that were much older but with far less hours, that suffered catastrauphic in-flight breakups and serious structural failures. It's not the years, it's the miles. Hours, however, don't count for a whole lot.

 

[EX_CV580FR8Dawg]

Well I can agree with you on that. The mx on the CVs that I was flying was pristine. The build dates on them were early 50s and I bet theyll still be flying for a long time. Yer gonna have to try real hard to break a Convair

When I first started flying the Convairs, my father, whos a sup at MKE atc told me of this incident.

http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1968/1968-29.htm