By: Creaking Door - 9th July 2011 at 19:38
Anyone care to hazard a guess?
At a guess, I’d say 250 million hours.
By: Creaking Door - 9th July 2011 at 19:38
Anyone care to hazard a guess?
At a guess, I’d say 250 million hours.
By: J Boyle - 9th July 2011 at 19:29
Or for that matter…
737s (a lot of them out there),
747s (fewer built that 737s but with a high daily utilization rate)
Cessna 172 (30,000? built)
C-130 (10,000+ built)
All have been around forver.
By: J Boyle - 9th July 2011 at 19:29
Or for that matter…
737s (a lot of them out there),
747s (fewer built that 737s but with a high daily utilization rate)
Cessna 172 (30,000? built)
C-130 (10,000+ built)
All have been around forver.
By: Creaking Door - 9th July 2011 at 19:15
It should be possible to make some sort of estimate with a few facts. To start with the total production for all DC-3 / C-47 variants plus licensed production in the Soviet Union and Japan was apparently just over 16,000 aircraft.
The question is how do we work-out an average hours for this vast fleet?
By: Creaking Door - 9th July 2011 at 19:15
It should be possible to make some sort of estimate with a few facts. To start with the total production for all DC-3 / C-47 variants plus licensed production in the Soviet Union and Japan was apparently just over 16,000 aircraft.
The question is how do we work-out an average hours for this vast fleet?
By: stangman - 9th July 2011 at 14:33
IMHO 1,000,000,000,000 wouldn’t be far of for an aircraft that has been flying for 75 years
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