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writes:
In rec.aviation.owning Keith Willshaw wrote:

"Tom S." wrote in message
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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7E7 will offer airlines a new airframe (they can't fly the same old
ones
forever)

No ?

No. Aircraft have definite service lives. Surprised you did not know
that.

What's the service life of a DC-3?



10,665 were built of which less than 400 remain in flyable condition

Nuff said.

Keith

Does the 10,665 include the C-47 and Li-2?

Yep. And the C-53, and the C-41. (One of the C-41s is, I think, still
flying. The Otis Spunkmeyer cookie folks owned it at least through
the 1990s._

The comparison of later airplane lifetimes with the DC-3 is largely
irrelevant, though. The DC-3 operates on a much more benign
environment wrt metal fatigue and acoustic vibration that "wear out"
airframes. The tough problems with running DC-3s/C-47s these days is
getting engines for them, and finding fuel.

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster