aircraft type with career zero hull loss
 

Is there any commercial aircraft type which has had a hull - loss free history before being retired. I know that historically they tend to be sold on second hand thereby increasing the incidence of write-off. Is the 717 a currently operating example?

Thanks

The Dassault Mercure I think?

Does the 717 count?
It's just an MD80 (DC9) at the end of the day.

....or a Charlie 135, even...

The Boeing C-135 Stratolifter is a transport aircraft.......Boeing gave the aircraft the internal designation of Model 717

It's also still in service (just). The question was about retired types.

I can't think of any apart from the aforementioned Mercure.

Shorts Belfast?

Certainly loss-free, but describing the Belfast as a "commercial aircraft", HeavyLift notwithstanding, is pushing it a bit.

Fokker 70 - heading towards retirement, no hull losses yet (but less than 50 built).

For currently operating types, if you get into sub-types and define "no hull loss" as "no hull loss in commercial flight operations", then I think the 717, 737-600, 737-900, 777-300, E145, E170, A318, A319, A330-300, A340-200, A340-500 and A380 all have perfect records so far - touch wood.

Of these, perhaps the A319 has the most impressive record: over 1300 built, and nobody's managed to seriously prang one yet.

True - fortunately, it's built like a brick you-know-what:

http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/oe-lfo/1.jpg

"Of these, perhaps the A319 has the most impressive record: over 1300 built, and nobody's managed to seriously prang one yet."

N313NB cn1186 DBR 19 Jan 03

That was a prang on the ground while being moved for maintenance, so not counted under my "no hull loss in commercial flight operations" definition.

I think the VC10 had a zero hull loss record save Dawsons Field? Or was 1 written off after a heavy landing?

Did not Nigeria Airways lose a VC 10?

VC-10 - three destroyed in accidents - Nigerian, BUA and East Aftrican,(four if you include the RAF example that was DBR in a ground incident) and three by terrorist/military action, MEA, BOAC and BA.

The Handley Page 42.
Eight were built in 1930 for Imperial Airways.
One was destroyed in a hangar fire.
The other seven were transferred to the RAF in 1939
in good working order-
(The RAF wrote them off in a year)

VFW 614. Only the prototype was lost (as a lot of them are).

Surely then that counts as a hull loss!

Please respect it as the MD-95.

Handley Page HP42
 

None lost on commercial operations although one was destroyed in an airship hangar fire. The remainder were destroyed after being impressed into RAF service but those weren't commercial operations.

Do you ever get a feeling of deja-vu?:ok: