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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.
The aircraft was a Boeing 727-232 Advanced, MSN 20750, registered as N473DA [5], a three-engine narrow-body jet aircraft.It was delivered to Delta Air Lines in November 1973, and was the 992nd Boeing 727 to be manufactured.
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.
Manufacturers often underestimate the cost of the D check. Boeing underestimates the cost for four of its aircraft, and the expectation is that it has underestimated it for the B787-9 which in 2018 had not been in service for long enough to have been put through a D check. [15] All amounts in millions of United States dollars, as of 2018. [15]
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 727-100 [a] (registration number N1996), serial number 18901. [ 1 ] : 7 The Boeing 727 was delivered to American Airlines on June 29, 1965, and had operated a total of 938 hours at the time of the accident.
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. It had less than 1,100 hours of operating time.
The crew consisted of Captain George T. Kunz (age 55), employed by National Airlines since 1956, who had qualified to fly the Boeing 727 in 1967 and accumulated 18,109 flight hours in his career with 5,358 hours on the Boeing 727; First Officer Leonard G. Sanderson Jr. (31), employed by National Airlines since 1976, with 4,848 flight hours of which 842 hours were on the Boeing 727; and Flight ...
July 26, 2002: FedEx Express Flight 1478, a 727-200F (registration N497FE) had initially briefed the approach to runway 27 of Tallahassee Municipal Airport near Tallahassee, Florida. The plane crashed, all three crew members survived. [76] May 25, 2003: A 727-200, registration number N844AA, was stolen from Quatro de Fevereiro Airport in Luanda ...