If you look closely enough, you'll see that the first 737 from the left, and the first 737 from the right, both have aft air stairs. My question is: can anyone give me the registrations of those 737's that had aft air stairs and flew for Aerolineas?
Ndebele From Germany, joined Apr 2001, 2895 posts, RR: 25 Reply 2, posted (10 years 1 month 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 2144 times:
Sorry to correct you, A319-131, but B737s do have aft stairs, at least the -100 and -200 did. Here's a better photo of a Lufthansa B737-100 with aft airstairs:
FLY777UAL From United States of America, joined May 1999, 4510 posts, RR: 3 Reply 4, posted (10 years 1 month 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 2133 times:
Actually, there are several 737's with the built-in aft airstairs. Several airlines, such as Alaska, US Air [Piedmont], and then whomever received their aircraft after them such as Eastwind, etc. operated with the aft stairs.
Lima From Argentina, joined May 1999, 1122 posts, RR: 16 Reply 5, posted (10 years 1 month 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 2079 times:
Hi Jj,
Aerolineas had two B737-287C, Combi aircraft. One was for sure LV-JND (Ciudad de Comodoro Rivadavia). If you look at this picture you see the aft door is different. The other 737 I don't remember, perhaps someone else do.
IMissPiedmont From United States of America, joined May 2001, 6201 posts, RR: 43 Reply 9, posted (10 years 1 month 5 days ago) and read 1947 times:
Well I'll be flopped on the ground and stomped! They say you learn something new every day and today I learned that there were integral airstairs on some 737s. I'd never seen them before.
What is it with all the "is there a possibilty airline X will.." threads? The answer it'll is possible.
Justplanesmart From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 694 posts, RR: 2 Reply 11, posted (10 years 1 month 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 1895 times:
The other 737-287C was LV-JNE, written off on November 20, 1992.
Other operators of 737 planes with built-in rear airstairs include:
Wien Air Alaska
Cschleic From United States of America, joined Feb 2002, 1030 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (10 years 1 month 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 1792 times:
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777gk From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 1641 posts, RR: 20 Reply 18, posted (10 years 1 month 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 1738 times:
Our 737-100s (all ex-LH and PE) had the rear airstair that were built into the door. It was a weird looking contraption, and was activated by pulling a red handle through a horizontal track, and the door would flop down, and the stairs would unfold section by section. Last flight I took on one of those beasts was in '99 EWR-RDU-EWR for a round of golf. The flight attendant at 2L was having a hard time opening the door up, and I went back and we tried our damndest to move that handle, but I guess it was jammed. Finally, the Captain (on 757s now), a good friend of mine, and former football player like myself, came back and all three of us pulled on the handle so hard that when it finally released, we were all thrown back into the 2R doorway! Pretty funny experience, I think that was the last time they ever used that airstair, because we wrote it up as inop and, as they were only a few weeks from retirement, nobody ever bothered to replace it.
The newer models only had the airstair at 1L (folded into the belly), that setup was probably not even an option on the models after the -200. I'm sure the thing was pretty damn heavy!
Uk_dispatcher From United Arab Emirates, joined Dec 2001, 2550 posts, RR: 33 Reply 20, posted (10 years 1 month 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 1721 times:
Are there still any intact 737-100s sitting anywhere (or flying, even), apart from the ex-NASA one???
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