Photo by Frank Schaefer
The world's friendliest airline and the world's best looking aircraft (webmaster's opinion) :) - #71 shows up in its homebase Amsterdam
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03.11.1972: Assembled in Long Beach 06.02.1973: To KLM (Frederik F. Chopin), PH-DTC 10.1973: Leased to Garuda Indonesia (Irian Jaya) 21.03.1975: Returned to KLM 03.05.1975: Leased to Philippine Airlines 16.11.1975: Returned to KLM 10.06.1991: To SBC-1-Air and leased back to KLM 17.12.1994: Last service for KLM 22.01.1995: Returned to SBC-1-Air 01.1995: WFU and stored in Marana, Arizona 22.06.1995: To CIT Leasing Corporation, N4655Z ????: WFU and stored in Amarillo, Texas 17.08.1995: Leased to Northwest Airlines 01.11.1995: Re-registred N230NW 13.10.1998: Minor damaged when it lost a larger part of the tail engine after take-off in AMS Hours / cycles accumulated by 01/04/2002: aprrox. 112200 / 27000 05.08.2005: Last service for Northwest Airlines 01.09.2005: Ferried from Minneapolis/St. Paul to Marana, AZ, WFU and stored Hours / cycles accumulated by 01/09/2005: 124609 / 28628 18.11.2005: Returned to CIT Leasing 2006: Broken up in Marana, AZ |
DC-10-30
Engines: 3 CF6-50C |
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Photo by Frank Schaefer |
The world's friendliest airline and the world's best looking aircraft (webmaster's opinion) :) - #71 shows up in its homebase Amsterdam |
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Photo by William Su |
As many DC-10s, #71 made its way to Northwest Airlines at the middle of the 1990s. Ironically, This DC-10 was initially ordered by Northwest's european partner KLM Click here to see more photos in this Northwest Airlines scheme |
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