UAX Dorniers???

[snap145]

Gentlemen,
an old school question completley out of curiousty. I have these from time to time....who was it that used to fly 328 props for United out of Denver and ORD...was it ACA before they got the jets????

 

[ataopsdave]

I think that Air Wisconsin used to fly some for United

 

[V1cutsrfun]

prior to that is was mountain air express...I believe they were a wholly owned of the Now Defunct Western Pacific. ie, the simpsons 737. Air willy aquired them.....as Max = Mountian air express.

V1

 

[feitinger]

Yep, all were Air Willy's aquired from MAX merger. Sold them all because of mechanical reliability and United desire to go "all jets" out of Chicago.

 

[DiverDriver]

They weren't reliable because of the way we treated them. I thought the DO-prop was great to fly.

 

[WSurf]

What a Sweet looking airplane it was!

 

[feitinger]

They weren't reliable because of the way we treated them. I thought the DO-prop was great to fly.

Oh, no doubt! AWAC chose an extra seat vs. the APU, so that screwed things up.

 

[dojetdriver]

They weren't reliable because of the way we treated them. I thought the DO-prop was great to fly.

I'll bet it was. The Darnear Jet version was fun as well. Wish I could have flown the prop. That way I could brag that I was flying one of the fastest props instead of saying I fly one of the slowest jets.

 

[JJET44]

Yeah
I miss to Do-Jet too!
Especially in the summer time when the cocpit panels would fall off because the adhesive that held on the velcro would melt!!

 

[Fratboy]

prior to that is was mountain air express...I believe they were a wholly owned of the Now Defunct Western Pacific. ie, the simpsons 737. Air willy aquired them.....as Max = Mountian air express.

V1

Before that, most (if not all) of those 328s were at Horizon, tail numbers 328PH through 344PH, anyway. I beleive QX was the NA launch customer.

Bought 'em to replace the Metros, but the last Metro left the property four months after the last 328 went back to Fairchild/MAX. Replaced both of them with the all-mighty Q200.

The guys that flew the 328 still brag about what a great airplane it was...

FB