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The DC-8 entered service with Delta Air Lines on September 18, 1959. ... Of the 556 DC-8s made, around 200 were still in commercial service in 2002, including about ...
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 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]
Douglas DC-7: 11 1954 Douglas DC-8 [68] Douglas DC-7B: 10 Douglas DC-8-11: 22 1959 1981 Boeing 727-200: Operated the world's first scheduled DC-8 service (from New York to Atlanta) on September 18, 1959. DC-8-11s were converted to -12s then further converted to -51s. [69] One crashed at Flight 9877. Two hijacked as Flight 841 and Flight 821 ...
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]
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At the time of the merger, Douglas Aircraft was estimated to be less than a year from bankruptcy. Flush with orders, the DC-8 and DC-9 aircraft were 9 to 18 months behind schedule, incurring stiff penalties from the airlines. Lewis was active in DC-10 sales in an intense competition with Lockheed's L-1011, a rival tri-jet aircraft.