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The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 is an American five-abreast, single-aisle aircraft designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company.It was initially produced as the Douglas DC-9 prior to August 1967, after which point the company had merged with McDonnell Aircraft to become McDonnell Douglas.
Douglas continued to develop new aircraft, including the successful four-engined Douglas DC-6 (1946) and its last propeller-driven commercial aircraft, the Douglas DC-7 (1953). The company had moved into jet propulsion, producing its first for the U.S. Navy — the straight-winged F3D Skyknight in 1948 and then the more "jet age" style F4D ...
DC-9-32 1979 May 16, 1979 June 21, 1993 Garuda Indonesia: Transportation Museum in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah in Jakarta, Indonesia. On static display [3] [4] MM62012 DC-9-32 1973 January 1974 May 2001 Italian Air Force: Volandia in Somma Lombardo, Varese On static display [5] [6] XA-JEB DC-9-32 1969 February 1969 August 31, 2004 Playboy ...
The plane was observed to have slowed significantly as a result of the engine loss and experienced an accelerated stall condition. The plane rolled to the right 90 degrees and crashed just south of the runway, resulting in 31 fatalities (all passengers and crew) aboard the McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 aircraft. [13] 3 May 1991
The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31, MSN 47590, registered as N954VJ, which was manufactured by McDonnell Douglas in 1973. In its 21 years of service, the aircraft had logged approximately 53917 airframe hours and 63147 takeoff and landing cycles. It was also equipped with two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7B engines. [6] [7]
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14: 6 1966 1979 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15: 14 1980 7 1986 1999 Former Ozark Air Lines fleet. McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31: 18 2001 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32: 16 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-34: 3 1986 1999 Former Ozark Air Lines fleet. McDonnell Douglas DC-9-41: 3 1986 1999 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51: 12 1993 Former Eastern Air ...
Douglas DC-9-32. In 1967, with the merger of McDonnell and Douglas Aircraft, David S. Lewis, then president of McDonnell Aircraft, was named chairman of what was called the Long Beach, Douglas Aircraft Division. At the time of the merger, Douglas Aircraft was estimated to be less than a year from bankruptcy.
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