Originally Posted by
hobie
How many 707's are still flying I wonder ? ....
any idea?
Quite a few considering their age and (surely) high cycles:
Airlines I know to still operate them:
Skymaster
SAHA Air
BETA Cargo
Trans Med Airlines (still solvent ?)
Sudan Cargo
Air forces from much of Europe, including the UK, and many South American Countries and the US and Australia are still flying many of the mil-spec versions of these old birds.
It is interesting to note that the 707s major competitor, the DC-8 remains flying with Cygnus, UPS, DHL, BETA Cargo,Skymaster,ATI,Airborne, BA Global, United Arab Airlines, Arrow Air and Murray Air to this day. The remaining DC-8s are more numerous than the 707s - the DC-8 Super series of that aircraft were built much later into the 60s and even 70s.