Aircraft type longest service career?

Ken Duffey wrote in message ...
As for the C-47 - I think the SAAF still operates them ??

Dunno about SAAF, but Paraguay's Air Force still operates the C-47.

Cheers,

Vicente

Ken Duffey writes:


Beaten easily by the C-47

and a close 2nd, the T-6/SNJ/Harvard 1938-1995
Matt Gunsch,

As for the C-47 - I think the SAAF still operates them ??


On 12/17/85 NOVA had a program on the 50th anniversary of the first
DC-3 flight.

At that time, Provincetown Boston Airways [Airline?] had one with
logs on 10.3 *years* of flight time. Wonder how many more hours
it now has...?

One of the design team interviewed suggested why it's so sturdy *
long-lived -- They did not know how to make it lighter...

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"Bjørnar Bolsøy" wrote:

The B2/PR9 Canberra?
(FF 1949, entered service 1951, still in service?)



P/F-51 Mustang. 1943-84. Last used as frontline equipment by Dominican Republic
AF until 1984.



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"Bjørnar Bolsøy" wrote:

The B2/PR9 Canberra?
(FF 1949, entered service 1951, still in service?)



P/F-51 Mustang. 1943-84. Last used as frontline equipment by Dominican
Republic
AF until 1984.

The last B-52H was delivered in October 1962...care to venture another
guess?

Tex

P/F-51 Mustang. 1943-84. Last used as frontline equipment by Dominican Republic
AF until 1984.

Super Cub. Even if you regard it as distinct from the J-3, the PA-18
went into service with the USAF in 1950. The Israeli defense forces
sold off their last dozen PA-18s last year, for a service life of 52
years even if no other military is presently using it.

Isn't it amazing? In WWI, fighter aircraft went through four distinct
generations. Now we have planes lasting a half-century.


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How about the old C-47 ? It seems it was designed in the 30's and is still
flying in some parts of the world.

(JSH5176) wrote:
How about the old C-47 ? It seems it was designed
in the 30's and is still
flying in some parts of the world.
Orignial DST, which became the DC-3, first designed in 1936. Even with
the various Turbo-Dakotas around, still quite a few old C-47s still around.
Even the Colombian AF and Salvadorian AF stil fly AC-47s.

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"Matt Wiser" wrote in message
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Orignial DST, which became the DC-3, first designed in 1936.


It made it's first flight in December 1935, methinks design began a bit
before that.

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:12:59 GMT, "Matt Wiser"
wrote:

Even the Colombian AF and Salvadorian AF stil fly AC-47s.

There's a DC-3 at Hampton Airport. I love to watch it do a wheelie on
landing--if the pilot ever three-points, I've never seen him do so.

Regardless of the wind, he takes off to the south. He's heading for
Nashua, I think, and he doesn't want to spend the gasoline it would
take to head north (the usual runway at 7B3) and then change his
heading.

Expensive hobby!

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