A 25-year-old American Airlines Boeing 727 became part of aviation history on Monday when it made its last trip to become part of the new Commercial Aviation Wing display at the Museum of Flight.
The aircraft, a Boeing 727-300, landed at Boeing Field, the same airport where American first took delivery.
“The 727 is without a doubt one of the most significant designs in the history of commercial aviation,” said Museum of Flight President and CEO Ralph A. Bufano. “To try to tell the story of airline travel without an example of this important type would be as impossible as trying to tell that story without mentioning American Airlines.”
The American 727 will eventually be displayed to the public alongside the museum’s presidential Boeing 707 and the prototypes of the Boeing 737 and 747. The new wing is the third phase of an expansion project that began in June last year.
Other aircraft that will be displayed in the commercial wing include the world’s only airworthy Boeing 247D, the only de Havilland Comet jetliner in North America and the prototype of the Douglas DC-2.
“The 727 is a landmark aircraft design, often called ‘The DC-3 of the Jet Age’ because of its versatility and performance,” said Timothy J. Doke, American’s Vice President-Corporate Communications.
The plane donated by American was delivered to the airline at Boeing Field on April 13, 1978 and logged 65,011 flight hours.
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By: wysiwyg - 24th January 2003 at 20:14
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
UPS have been re-equipping DC8’s with 4 CFM’s and finding them very practical. The problem with totally removing engines is that you then have to start redisigning the whole hydraulic, electrical, anti-ice, etc systems as these are drawn off all 3 or 4 engines to provide system redundancy.
By: mongu - 24th January 2003 at 19:55
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
How about the same idea applied to 707’s and DC-8’s – equipping them with two new engines and two “dummy” engines to maintain balance?
By: wysiwyg - 24th January 2003 at 08:29
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
I think they were just after a cheap way of getting some life out of some cheap to lease airframes for freight work.
By: KabirT - 24th January 2003 at 08:00
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
What will be the use….that will just be on the lines of the 767 then.
By: wysiwyg - 24th January 2003 at 07:54
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
It’s an interesting concept though. There was recently a plan in the States to put modern turbofans (GE90’s?) under the wings of old DC10’s and leave the normal unit in the tail position. The plan was to use all three to get airborne and then throttle back the number 2 and use it as an APU. I got this info from the former BCAL chief DC10 training captain.
By: KabirT - 24th January 2003 at 07:46
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 24-01-03 AT 07:47 AM (GMT)]I dont think two Tays wont do Mongu.
By: EGNM - 24th January 2003 at 00:28
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
i’ve logged a B727-30 – not a -300 but a -30 P4-MMG
By: mongu - 23rd January 2003 at 19:06
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
Would it be practical to replace three JT8D’ with two Tay’s?
By: KabirT - 23rd January 2003 at 15:17
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
Thanx for the info. Bhoy.
By: Bhoy - 23rd January 2003 at 12:30
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
yeah, the Tay was used on the F100, as well as the Gulfstreams.
The Fokker 100 used either the 13850lb st rated Tay 620-15 or the 15100lb st rated Tay 650-15.
Whereas as the Fokker 70 used the 9900lb st rated RB.183-2 Mk 555-15P.
UPS had a retrofit to the Tay carried out by Dee Howard to it’s 727-100’s in the late 80’s/early 90’s, as the previous P&W JT8D weren’t up to 1990 noise limits.
Dee Howard also offered a retrofit on the 1-11 to Tay 650’s.
By: KabirT - 23rd January 2003 at 08:29
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
Tay engines have been most famous on Gulfstream aircrafts and there test bed was a Viscount. In fact they just completed building 1000 Tays for Gulfstream. Sorry i dont have any idea about your Fokker question.
By: wysiwyg - 23rd January 2003 at 08:21
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
Thanks everybody, this is really quite interesting. Isn’t that the same engine that was used in the F70 and F100? Was it used in anything else?
By: KabirT - 23rd January 2003 at 08:18
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 23-01-03 AT 08:20 AM (GMT)]Ok people found it…its the RR Tay engines and only UPS has a plane which was supposed to be a B723. Notice the bulging centre-engine. This a/c has been operated before by Avianca.
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By: Bhoy - 22nd January 2003 at 20:23
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
or RR Speys, like the BAC 1-11?
By: Dazza - 22nd January 2003 at 19:07
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
Perhaps it was the RR Olympus, after all the Avro Vulcan B.2 was fitted with Olympus 301s, although thinking about it they’re probably two wide and long to fit a 727s engine bays, maybe it was RR Conways, like on the VC-10?
Regards, Dazza.
By: KabirT - 22nd January 2003 at 15:29
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
Yes Wys i was not able to get the name…its something like that only.
By: wysiwyg - 22nd January 2003 at 12:09
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
Ahhh I see. But I don’t think the engine upgrade could have been the Olympus as that is the engine used in the Concorde!!!
By: KabirT - 22nd January 2003 at 09:16
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
It is a little bit of modified B722….it was offering the bulging RR Olymus(Olympic?) engines. A little more adv. avionics a more advanced honeycomb structure of the wings.
By: wysiwyg - 21st January 2003 at 23:01
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
So it wasn’t actually built then? Is this actually a 200 then?
By: Dazza - 21st January 2003 at 18:37
RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !
Boeing was considering building a 727-300 but the advent of the 757 put an end to the project.
Regards, Dazza.
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