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The Boeing 727 is an American narrow-body airliner that was developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. After the heavier 707 quad-jet was introduced in 1958, Boeing addressed the demand for shorter flight lengths from smaller airports. On December 5, 1960, the 727 was launched with 40 orders each from United Airlines and Eastern Air ...
English: UA operated intra-European services with the 727. Its modest longhaul beginnings in FRA consisted of a daily 767 to ORD and IAD each - now it's up to five 777/744 flights. Over the last decades, no less than four US carriers brought 727s to FRA: Pan Am, Delta, TWA und United.
On March 2, 2016, after extensive restoration, N7001U made its final flight from Paine Field near Everett, Washington to the museum's facility at Boeing Field. [5] The aircraft was a notable exception to Boeing's practice of retaining first production examples of its jet airliners for testing and development; not until the Boeing 777 of the 1990s would such an aircraft see regular airline service.
The Boeing 727-22C aircraft, registration N7434U, [1] was almost new and had been delivered to United Airlines only four months earlier. It had less than 1,100 hours of operating time. The crew of Flight 266 was Captain Leonard Leverson, 49, a veteran pilot who had been with United Airlines for 22 years and had almost 13,700 flying hours to his ...
United Airlines Flight 389 was a scheduled flight from LaGuardia Airport, New York City, New York, to O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois.On August 16, 1965, at approximately 21:21 EST, the Boeing 727 crashed into Lake Michigan 20 miles (17 nmi; 32 km) east of Fort Sheridan, near Lake Forest, while descending from 35,000 feet (11,000 m) mean sea level (MSL).
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 727-22, registered as N7030U with serial number 18322. It was manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in 1965 and was equipped with three Pratt & Whitney JT8D-1 engines. It had logged 1781 airframe hours. [6]
All base models were built for United Airlines. [49] Boeing 377 Stratocruiser: 7 [48] 1950 1954 Unknown Boeing 720: 29 [48] 1960 1976 Boeing 727: Launch customer. Boeing 727-100: 126 1963 1993 Boeing 737-500: Three crashed as Flight 389, Flight 227, and Flight 266. Boeing 727-200: 104 1968 2001 Airbus A320 family Boeing 737 NG Bombardier CRJ ...