Hopefully one day I can get a flight on one of these birds, I probably have the best chance with SAS. Has anyone already managed this - to fly an aircraft exactly as old as they are?
Look at the production lists, such as those available on airfleets.net, and see where the day you were born on matches exactly with the date of the first flight.
Isitsafenow From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4984 posts, RR: 26 Reply 4, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 3317 times:
I dont know but I am willing to bet the bank the aircrafts "born" on my birthday were B-17's, B-24's and B-29's.
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DeltaAVL From United States of America, joined Mar 2007, 1893 posts, RR: 8 Reply 6, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 3290 times:
I don't think I'll get a chance to fly on any of these planes. I don't plan on doing any domestic Japanese traveling anytime soon. Or stowing away with some FedEx cargo.
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WestJetYQQ From Canada, joined Jan 2007, 2986 posts, RR: 5 Reply 7, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 3253 times:
Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 2): Look at the production lists, such as those available on airfleets.net, and see where the day you were born on matches exactly with the date of the first flight.
FlagshipAZ From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 3419 posts, RR: 15 Reply 8, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 3251 times:
Well, I don't know about the first flight of any aircraft on my b-day, but I can tell you what aircraft was DELIVERED the same day that I was...August 24, 1961. It was a 707-138B delivered to Qantas as VH-EBJ, named the "City of Longreach". One of only 13 shortbody 707s built specifically for Qantas. My "birth" plane was last seen in Cairo. No idea where the aircraft is now.
Regards.
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PHLstudent From United States of America, joined May 2006, 498 posts, RR: 8 Reply 9, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 3226 times:
Quoting Flynavy (Reply 5): You all need to get out more. Seriously.
SW733 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6072 posts, RR: 10 Reply 10, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 3209 times:
AlexPorter From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 3186 times:
08 April 1987:
Only one Bae-146, which has seen multiple operators.
Orginally delivered to PSA as N367PS, its first pic in the DB was one year later with hybrid USAir titles as N191US.
Three years later, it was returned to Bae as G-BVFV.
Twenty days later, it went to CityJet as EI-JET, where it served for three years, first under contract with Virgin Atlantic.
Sorry for all the pics, but I only got one plane so I may as well show it off, right?
I was born one day later than the 767 that became American 11 (as well as a number of other Boeing aircraft that first flew on the 7th), but only the one Bae-146 had its first flight on my birthday. Lots of planes, like Boeings and MD80s had their first flights on the 7th, but not on the 8th. Either they didn't have first flights on Wednesdays, or there was bad weather on the west coast. Or just some weird coincidence.
N801NW From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 741 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 3172 times:
N801NW, of course. I also happened to be flying NW BOS-MSP-SJC that day 08/28/2003. O.k. it may just be the date the paperwork was filed but it is close enough for me.
FlagshipAZ From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 3419 posts, RR: 15 Reply 16, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 3115 times:
If one cannot find your "b-day" plane (the first flight date), try the delivery date instead. If you were "delivered" to your mother, so can an aircraft to its original owner. If you're into Boeing & McDonnell Douglas commercial planes, try the Boeing's orders & deliveries webpage. It goes back as far as 1958.
Regards.
"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." --Ben Franklin
... and that's it. But, as with some others, there are a couple of other planes that were built around that time that might have had their first flight on my birthday...
Buck3y3nut From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 864 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 3090 times:
searched all the aircraft on airfleet website. No A/C shares the same b'day as mine...
too bad... I guess...
Isitsafenow From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4984 posts, RR: 26 Reply 20, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 3065 times:
Quoting ShannoninAMA (Reply 19): Cant find any from my birthday, let alone from '65..
1965.........try DC-9-10, 727-100's, 707's and perhaps a DC8.
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D328 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 294 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 3058 times:
July 8, 1985 (787 this year baby my bday present, haha)
NWADC9 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 4857 posts, RR: 10 Reply 24, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 3017 times:
All four of these little guys were born on May 31, 1991, just like NWADC9.
Flying an aeroplane with only a single propeller to keep you in the air. Can you imagine that? -Capt. Picard
25 FlagshipAZ: ShannonInAMA, I did you a favor. I searched the Boeing webpage for orders & deliveries for your "birth" plane, and came away with no hits for 10/10/65
26 LTU932: I searched for aircraft built and/or delivered on December 26th 1982, but couldn't find any. Only consolation: two years before I was born, also on De
40 Buck3y3nut: Born on Jan 26, 1985 and found nothing again
41 1stfl94: July 5th 1986 Can't get the site to work but I do know that Monarch began their scheduled services on that day
42 MadameConcorde: I am older than Concorde. The A380 will make her first commercial flight to Sydney on my birthday. I will not be on the flight, it costs way too much.
43 Tango-Bravo: The DC-6B, regarded by many as the most successful type of the propliner era, made its first flight one day after I was born. Here's a photo of one de
44 FlyTUITravel: Maybe you need to get out of here.
46 Viscount724: The following site has most if not all of the Douglas production list, but does not show delivery dates. http://www.xs4all.nl/~rioolpw/maind.html DC-
48 IAD2BTR: No photo, but a Seaboard World Airlines DC8-50C was delivered on my birthday way back on 17 March 1966. Also Gemini 8 splashed down that day-this was
49 SRforever: this turned out to be quite interessting... 14.02.83 I'm specially happy to find out about this one (considering my username): B-747-357M View Large V
50 VTBDflyer: September 13, 1992 N774AS Boeing 737-4Q8 VTBDflyer
51 B747forever: Just one for 1992 11th February. It was first flying with TAP as CS-TIK http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1120578/M/ Then as 9H-ADN with Air Malta ht
52 WILCO737: Argh... Seems to be I am the only one born on my birthday... No aircraft on that day WILCO737 (MD11F)
53 Tango-Bravo: One that was delivered on the exact day of my 40th birthday, 22 January 1991, is USAir 737-4B7 N778AU, looking like-new when photographed less than th
54 A380US: ha im the 5th of the same yeer but i too couldnt fingd n e thing
55 Kmh1956: Two years too late. I wouldn't know where to begin to look for a plane born on my birthdate (9/11/56)...and it would take too long anyway....
57 Fanofjets: " target=_blank>http://airfleets.net/home/ Eeek! I am definitely getting on in years, as I am older than all these aircraft! Yes, I date back to the t
61 AeroMexico777: HI! Only one for me... He is now stored... HE is only 27!!! or maybe I must go to storage too? Poor of us 2... and our birthay is comming... only a fe
62 AF Cabin Crew: Ia Orana all ! Here is the one and only plane that share my bday... I was hoping for a DC10 but I got another king of tri-jets. Happy Flying, AF Cabin
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