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United Airlines had previously intended to sell the aging aircraft to a salvage company in early 1998. After this accident, the airline opted to retire the aircraft soon afterwards with Flight 826 being its last revenue flight. [7] [6] It was ferried to Las Vegas McCarran International Airport in January 1998 and scrapped later that year.
30 May 1984: Flight 931, a Lockheed L-188A Electra freighter, N5523, serial number 188A-1034, bound from Baltimore to Ypsilanti disintegrated over Pennsylvania after being subjected to extreme aerodynamic loads as a result of failure of the crew to properly respond to conflicting information when the aircraft entered into an unusual attitude ...
The first digit of the serial number represents the last digit of the year in which it was made, ranging from 7 (1987) to 4 (1994). [20] The USPS does not permit reselling LLVs, so when they are retired, they are scrapped for parts; [17]: 4–40 however, at least one was sold by the State of Georgia at auction in 2013. [21] [22]
The delivery of the carrier's fourth Boeing 747-400 in April 1996 signalled the start of an ambitious US$4 billion modernization and re-fleeting program that aimed to make PAL one of Asia's best airlines within three years. The centerpiece of the program was the acquisition of 36 state-of-the-art aircraft from Airbus and Boeing between 1996 and ...
The next 7 digits is the Serial Number of the AWB; The last digit is the Check digit. The check digit is derived by dividing the 7 digit Serial Number by 7. The remainder determines the Check Digit. Example: Serial Number 8114074 divided by 7 is 1159153 with remainder 3. To easily calculate the remainder you can divide the 7 figures by 7, then ...
This list is only of aircraft that have an article, indexed by aircraft registration "tail number" (civil registration or military serial number). The list includes aircraft that are notable either as an individual aircraft or have been involved in a notable accident or incident or are linked to a person notable enough to have a stand-alone Wikipedia article.
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A Tu-334 at the 2007 MAKS Airshow, Moscow A Tu-334 performing at MAKS 2007 A Tu-334 at the 2007 MAKS Airshow, Moscow. The Tupolev Tu-334 (Russian: Туполев Ту-334) was a Russian short-to-medium range airliner project that was developed to replace the aging Tu-134s and Yak-42s in service around the world.