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DC-8 Jet Trader: Douglas approved the development of freighter versions of the DC-8 in May 1961, based on the Series 50. An original plan to fit a fixed bulkhead separating the forward 2 ⁄ 3 of the cabin for freight, leaving the rear cabin for 54 passenger seats was soon replaced by a more practical one to use a movable bulkhead and allow ...
Samaritan's Purse (currently operates a converted DC-8-72CF aircraft) Saturn Airways ♠; Seaboard World Airlines ♠; Southern Air Transport (fleet included converted Super DC-8-71 and Super DC-8-73 aircraft) Skybus Cargo Charters (currently operates converted Super DC-8-72 and Super DC-8-73 aircraft) Trans Caribbean Airways ♠; Trans Continental
The aircraft involved in the accident was a 1968-built Douglas DC-8-71, registration N8079U.Operated by United Airlines (1968–1990) and Líneas Aéreas Paraguayas (1990–1994), later modified for service as a freighter before being sold.
Emery Worldwide Airlines began operations in the early 1980s with a fleet composed mainly of Boeing 727 and Douglas DC-8 freighter aircraft. It flew scheduled nighttime routes to and from Emery Worldwide’s freight sortation hub in Dayton, OH, and connecting flights to Emery's European hub in Maastricht, Netherlands.
The aircraft involved was N814CK, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61(F) manufactured in December 1969. Originally configured for passenger service, in 1991 it was sold to AIA and converted into a freighter. The aircraft had accumulated 43,947 flight hours and 18,829 flight cycles at the time of the accident.
Air India Cargo was set up in 1932, [1] [2] [3] and started its freighter operations with a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, giving Air India the distinction of being the first Asian airline to operate freighters. Between the 1980s and 1990s it operated Boeing 747 and Douglas DC-8 freighter aircraft on various international routes through other companies.
This service was discontinued in 2010, with the last working flight for the DC-8 with National taking place in May 2012. During the summer of 2010, the airline purchased three Boeing 747-400BCFs. These aircraft were operated for the airline by Air Atlanta Icelandic initially, before being registered in the United States in 2011.
A Capitol Airways DC-8-31 (N1802) crashed at Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States during crew training due to crew error; all four crew survived, but the aircraft was written off. [1] 29 June 1968 A KLM DC-8-53 on lease to Viasa (PH-DCH, named Orville Wright) was destroyed in a hangar fire at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [1]