DC9 at STN

[TOWTEAMBASE]

Any idea who the DC9 belonged to today,looked like an ex USAF aircraft by the colour scheme. FR24 had no record of it

[Double Hydco]

It probably was US military. I've seen one or two C-9's landing at STN. You occasionally see the USN version in Naples too.

DH

[DaveReidUK]

Any idea who the DC9 belonged to today

Time of day might help to narrow it down, together with what it was doing when you saw it: arriving, departing or parked?

[G-APDK]

YR-OTN MD82 operated the Moldovan flight 9U833 yesterday lunchtime. This has been used regularly over the last few weeks.

G-APDK
Air-Britain Stansted Branch

[Flightmech]

As above.

YR-OTN. Seen it taxi past on "J" past my office window a few times in recent weeks.

[TOWTEAMBASE]

Thanks guys.Is it ex USAF then ? Looks very much like it. Not seen on of those for a while

[DaveReidUK]

Thanks guys. Is it ex USAF then ?

No, spent its first 20 years with PSA and then USAir, and has been all round the houses since then.

Looks very much like it.

Hmmm.

[TOWTEAMBASE]

Thanks dave

So they painted it upside down :-D my mistake

[munster]

It's operated by Ten Airlines from Romania. I've been jump seating to/from Chisianau for the last few weeks with them. Good crews and Olympic level drinkers in the hotel!

[glendalegoon]

recently a USAF dc9 equivilent was auctioned off as a former air force one (clinton flew on it once)> nice shape.

if it is former USAIR/PSA, anyone know the registration number? perhaps ending in US or AU

[treadigraph]

Glendalegoon, 'twas N944PS/N820US.

[SpringHeeledJack]

I saw this old bird in the last days at STN and as others have said it was a dead ringer for a C-9 or VC-9 (if such existed). Photographic evidence showed this to be incorrect and it's heritage was confirmed, BUT it's because it has the partial colour scheme that mimics the VC-25's of the US President and this is what has caused it to be suspected of being ex-USAF.

Boeing VC-25 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


SHJ

[glendalegoon]

maybe it wasn't at USAIR

all the real dc9's had N numbers with 9 as the first number: eg: 913VJ

at least after the merger with PSA

it wasn't an MD80 was it?????

[SpringHeeledJack]

It appears to be an MD-82/DC-9-82 and was at USAir back in the 80's according to a cursory look on the inter web.


SHJ

[DaveReidUK]

it wasn't an MD80 was it?????

Identified as such in post #4.

all the real dc9's

With the exception of the MD-88, all the other MD-80 variants are certificated as DC-9s.

[glendalegoon]

ok, so its an md82 and then the N number makes sense


nice paint job