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The Douglas DC-8 (sometimes McDonnell Douglas DC-8) is an early long-range narrow-body jetliner designed and produced by the American Douglas Aircraft Company.Work began in 1952 towards the United States Air Force's (USAF) requirement for a jet-powered aerial refueling tanker.
The Douglas DC-8 was an American piston-engined airliner project by Douglas Aircraft.A concept developed more than a decade before the DC-8 jetliner, the piston-engined DC-8 was to have propellers in the tail, an idea first used at Douglas by Edward F. Burton on a fighter project. [1]
DC-8-32 April 18th, 1960 July 16th, 1960 June 1974 Japan Air Lines: Haneda Airport, Tokyo, Japan: On static display Named "Fuji" by Japan Air Lines: N220RB DC-8-21 1958 Jan 1959 April 15, 1994 Douglas Aircraft Company; United Airlines; Project Orbis; Chinese Aviation Museum in Datangshan, China: On static display
The DC-7C sold better than its rival, the Lockheed L-1649A Starliner, which entered service a year later, [9] but sales were cut short by the arrival of Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 jets in 1958–60. Starting in 1959 Douglas began converting DC-7s and DC-7Cs into DC-7F freighters to extend their useful lives. The airframes were fitted with ...
Douglas DC-6B: 1 1952 Unknown Douglas DC-8: Douglas DC-8: 14 1962 1979 Airbus A300: Fokker F27 Friendship: 18 1960 1967 Hawker Siddeley HS 748: Fokker 50: 11 1988 1999 Airbus A320-200: Hawker Siddeley HS 748: 21 1967 1989 Unknown [57] McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30: 6 1974 1996 Boeing 747-200B, McDonnell Douglas MD-11: PH-DTC, PH-DTI, and PH ...
The Douglas R4D-8 (later redesignated C-117D) is a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3S (Super DC-3) airliner. It was used by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps during the Korean War and Vietnam War.
The aircraft involved was a Douglas DC-8-63CF, built in 1968. The aircraft was powered by four Pratt and Whitney JT3D-7 engines. The aircraft had 7,878 hours at the time of the accident. [1]: 4–5 [4] [5] The captain was 49-year-old Joseph John May, who had 22,300 flight hours, including 7,100 hours on the DC-8.
The tail assembly of N8013U, the Douglas DC-8 involved in the collision.. United Airlines Flight 826, Mainliner Will Rogers, registered as N8013U, [6] was a DC-8-11 carrying 77 passengers and 7 crew members from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Idlewild Airport in Queens.