Biman DC-10 joining Bruntingthorpe museum collection?

It was going to the USA for a museum but they had to pass due to lack of space

Brunty took it on

Then someone at the last minuet bought the engines

So it went back the Bangladesh for parting out and scrap.

Maybe they’ll preserve the empty hulk?

I don’t remember it looping when I was aboard :rolleyes: Actually, the seat take up was quite good, as only window seats and adjacent aisle seats were offered, though I see on the very last one demand meant that some centre seats were also occupied.

Tim

“After landing in England, thousands of people got the opportunity to go on scenic flights north towards Scotland before looping back to Birmingham” – that would have made for a memorable flight! Great reporting, as usual…..

Well, thousands did get the opportunity. Not many actually took that opportunity, but hey – never let facts get in the way of a good story.

“After landing in England, thousands of people got the opportunity to go on scenic flights north towards Scotland before looping back to Birmingham” – that would have made for a memorable flight! Great reporting, as usual…..

Some pictures here

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2570047/Bowing-style-Final-chapter-history-jet-age-icon-DC10-airliner-makes-passenger-flight-scrapped.html

The Beeb’s noticed….

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-26259236

No one noticed it says on the poster final flight 25-Feb-2015 :confused:

The DC-10 arrived tonight at BHX, about 1.5h later than the ETA reported yesterday. My photo shows it taxying up its allotted gate as dark set in.

Tim

The airline is about to launch two new long haul services from BHX this Spring using B.777s. The initiative with the retiring DC-10 has achieved considerable attention, even being reported on CNN. The pleasure flights will enable the airline to “fly their flag” over the Midlands, with up to three flights daily over the three days concerned (depending on take up); so a novel form of advertising. At the same time it enables folk who haven’t sampled a DC-10 to do so, which will please those involved. The initiative seems to make commercial sense. I’d be surprised if many ever regarded it differently – though the nature of this aircraft’s intended preservation isn’t now so clear. Is it destined for a museum site on its return home? While the BAF has a museum at Dhaka that establishment is geared to military exhibits, so where will this airliner now end up?

Tim

So they’re flying it to Birmingham “en-route to retirement in the US”, making a few quick quid selling seats, and then turning around and going straight back again? Not quite the altruistic gesture it was first made out to be, is it?

To clear things up, David Walton has just informed us, the Board of Bangladesh Biman Airlines has decided that the aircraft will return to Dhaka for preservation after its pleasure flights from Birmingham, and it will not be coming to Bruntingthorpe at all.

Its last pleasure flight is scheduled to take off around 3.00 pm and land back at Birmingham around 4.00 pm on Monday, 24th February.

The website in the following link includes some quotes reportedly from Biman management and it also specifically includes the following references to its proposed final destination:

“… … The last DC10 is being donated to a museum in the USA, a fitting end for an aircraft that has served Biman loyally and well over many year. … …”

” … … c. We are unsure if the US authorities will give us traffic rights on the Birmingham to USA sector. If they do, this will also be offered for sale.”

See: http://www.airteamimages.com/aviation_news.php?id=124

More recent mention is of Bruntingthorpe so some clarification would help!

Just a guess, but perhaps the USA thing is just a change of registered owner and registration for it’s final flight to Brunters

That happened with some Dominies…US registered for their final flight.

As I say just a guess, but paperwork moves in mysterious circles and some aircraft get ‘sold abroad’ then sometime later ‘imported’ whilst still in daily use and never leaving their orignal base.

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I think it is going on to the USA.. perhaps even Seattle ..http://www.airportspotting.com/details-final-biman-dc10-flights/

Back to the original question, can anyone actually confirm it’s going to be preserved and if so if it will be live?

Not really. Aircon capacity and the twin aisle are features of the design. Certainly the DC10 windows are pretty much standard for the time, as are the seats, but thats the point.

Bad air-con, cramped uncomfy seats and if you’re in the mid rows you can’t even see much through the tiny windows… So why would I want to fly on one again, just because its being withdrawn from service?

You do realize that most of the faults you complain about are operator issues, not the fault of the aircraft type?

As far as small windows, they’re no smaller than any other plane of its generation.

I don’t really get the pleasure flights thing. It’s great that airlines have an interest in their history and so on, but when all is said and done, one 70’s or 80’s wide body is much the same as another once you’re on board! Wanting to fly on a 30s airliner or the last flight of Concorde or the last VC10, sure, but the last time I flew on a DC10, I couldn’t wait to get off! Bad air-con, cramped uncomfy seats and if you’re in the mid rows you can’t even see much through the tiny windows… So why would I want to fly on one again, just because its being withdrawn from service?

Other opinions are also available…

Looks like the airline are taking a commendably respectful interest in retiring a type from commercial aviation.

Admirable.