Mdsmith11 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 194 posts, RR: 1 Posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 3079 times:
Per the topic title, does anyone know when the former UAL DC-10's that FX has will be painted into the FX livery? Says alot about FX's demand that they needed those planes in service so bad that the couldn't not get a coat of paint in conjunction with the freighter conversion. Are they due to be MD-10's and will get painted then?
Seems odd here at MEM and seeing one of those land/depart amongst all the other blue and whites.
An-225 From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 3950 posts, RR: 51 Reply 1, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 3016 times:
I don't know when it'll be painted, but it was here at DEN a few days ago. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a picture.
Alex.
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Usnseallt82 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 4890 posts, RR: 57 Reply 2, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 3007 times:
Spacepope From Vatican City, joined Dec 1999, 2518 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 2969 times:
Actually, those planes were operated by UA as freighters, I think they had 4 of them. One was only 800 hours away from a D check however, and was not taken up. Fedex has 3 in United Cargo colors now. There was no respray opportunity at conversion for Fedex, they may be resprayed at the next heavy check though.
Mu2 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 210 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 2902 times:
Spinkid From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 967 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 2803 times:
FedExIndy From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 77 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 2765 times:
FedEx has had these planes for nearly 3 years. They lease the planes from United and will probably return them. They are -30 planes.
MTChemNerd757 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 230 posts, RR: 2 Reply 7, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 2651 times:
KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 11740 posts, RR: 49 Reply 8, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 2552 times:
Mikeclod From United States of America, joined Dec 2001, 272 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 2296 times:
FedEx has put the MD-10 program on hold. Haven't seen these ones yet, I got to work N217FE the other day though. It was a nice treat.
Mikeclod
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Jetjack74 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 7198 posts, RR: 54 Reply 10, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 2190 times:
One of them is here in DTW. I can't get close enough to it to see the registration. But I can see it from the the Midfield Terminal.
Pilotpip From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3014 posts, RR: 13 Reply 11, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 2058 times:
N323FE and N326FE used to come to STL all the time. They were notorious for breaking down. From what I understand, the lease is almost up.
You can still distinctly read the "UAL Cargo" on the side of at least one of them.
Thrust From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 2668 posts, RR: 17 Reply 12, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 2009 times:
Are any of the ex-UAL DC-10s still at STL? How much longer will it be before all ex-UAL DC-10s, including ones at STL, are all converted into MD-10s for FedEx?
Pilotpip From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3014 posts, RR: 13 Reply 13, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 1904 times:
They used to use them here quite often. I haven't seen one in a few weeks.
I've never seen a -30 with the MD-10 upgrade. Is this even a possibility?
Fxra From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 660 posts, RR: 3 Reply 14, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 1845 times:
N316FE was the MD-10 test aircraft, and now in service. Its a MD-10-30. Several more have been converted, don;t know the numbers though.
RayBolt From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 255 posts, RR: 1 Reply 15, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 1791 times:
I saw one at EWR last month. Confused me at first when I saw the UA liv over by the FX ramp, but then realized there were no titles, and remembered that these were with FX now.
Dc10guy From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 2685 posts, RR: 8 Reply 16, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1747 times:
323fe will be returned to the lessor in march 04 & 326fe will be returned in April. They are both leased -30's that where flown by United cargo. The MD 10 program is alive and well here at FEDEX. MD10 560FE is setting right in front of me right now. Its Brand new .... Kind of ???
Next time try the old "dirty Sanchez" She'll love it !!!
Pilotpip From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3014 posts, RR: 13 Reply 17, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1729 times:
DC10guy, How much has the crash of the one at MEM in December affected dispatching? We seem to be getting more A-300s at STL since then. I can't reach the single point adapters on those too well, so I don't like them!
Of course, this also means that we get a 727 as well as it takes both to make up for the capacity of a DC-10.
Isitsafenow From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4984 posts, RR: 28 Reply 18, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 1656 times:
In early 2002, most of UA and AA DC 10's were at Goodyear awaiting conversions to MD 10's. Most were model 10's but there was a few model 30's among the 30 airplanes I counted. Almost all had the airline names painted out. I was at Goodyear in April of 2003 and most of these planes were gone. Some were scrapped, I was told because the company that was to do the conversions, went out of business. Anyone have more info on the DC 10's that was parked at Goodyear, AZ?
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Dc10guy From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 2685 posts, RR: 8 Reply 19, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 1546 times:
Pilotpip, When 364fe crashed in MEM it couldn't of happened at a worse time. Lucky for us we had ex-Fedex aircraft 322FE on short term lease. That helped take up some slack for the x-mas rush. Fedex is returning all the -30's when their leases run out. The MD-11's are kind of replacing the -30's We do have about 5 -30 MD 10's right now. I think the number of MD10's planned for now is 88 was 89 .... We are going to get about 13 this year.
Next time try the old "dirty Sanchez" She'll love it !!!
Srbmod From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 16221 posts, RR: 57 Reply 20, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 1428 times:
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One of the UAL-paint DC-10s was @ ATL the other day.
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Ramprat74 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 1410 posts, RR: 2 Reply 21, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 1375 times:
It brings a tear to my eye when I see those. I worked on those planes. One of them smells like cheap dime store perfume. I guess a pallet with cheap perfume from Asia broke on one of the flights. I guess they could never clean it up.
FedExIndy From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 77 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 1332 times:
I wondered why N322FE wasn't fully painted. It was in the purple and white colors, but it didn't have the FedEx Livery on it. It was in Indy over Thanksgiving. So, FedEx is going to get rid of all the -30s? I did hear that they weren't going to convert anymore -30s to MD10. Also, I heard the MD10 project was much more costly than they originally thought.
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