An old jet, Saved from the bone yard

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In today’s video, we look at a somewhat uncommon aviation story, the story of an old aircraft being resurrected from the bone yard and made airworthy to fly once again. The plane in question an ex DHL Airbus A300 which I have seen many a time on my work tours of Kingman. N362DH serial number 84, was a nearly 44 year old Airbus A300B4-100 which started its life as HS-TGP when it was delivered to Thai Airways international in September 1979. In Oct 2000 it was delivered to DHL and converted to a freighter and re-registered to N362DH where the aircraft flew until July 2009 when it was stored in Kingman, AZ with a handful of other DHL aircraft, including other A300s, 727s and DC-8s.
After roughly 14 years in storage, on March 2nd 2023 the aircraft (now registered to TVPX trust service, a US aircraft brokerage service specializing in cross border aircraft transactions) made a short 50 minute flight from Kingman, AZ (IGM) to San Bernardino, CA (SBD). The aircraft sat for 5...

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February 28 2023, Michigan Based cargo airline USA Jet has parked its last McDonnell Douglas DC-9, retiring their DC-9 Fleet.

Before starting to park them, the USA Jet fleet of DC-9s consisted of 6 aircraft. The 3 DC-9-10 series aircraft, consisting of 192, 195 and 196US, have an average age of 55 years old. While the 3 DC-9-30s, consisting of 205, 208 and 327US are slightly younger with an average age of 51. The airline has opted to retire its smaller DC-9 aircraft in favor if the newer, larger McDonnell Douglas MD-88s which were acquired after Delta retired its MD88 fleet in June of 2020. USA Jet was the first airline to take delivery of the passenger to freighter converted MD-88 Nov 7th 2021. The new to USA Jet MD88s can fly the same routes the DC9s could but using less fuel. The average age of USA Jets MD88F fleet is currently 32 years old. USA Jet is headquartered at Michigan’s Willow Run airport and was founded in 1994. Although the airline used fly passenger charter...