Transpac787 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 3138 posts, RR: 14 Reply 1, posted (3 years 3 months 6 hours ago) and read 1352 times:
Quoting C5LOAD (Thread starter): Now that NW/DL are one, were any of NW old aircraft i.e. DC-10, 727, DC-9-10, 742, 741 ever Delta's at all, or vice versa?
Never any widebodies. NW only had 747-151's and the few second-hand 742's they picked up were from overseas.
As for 727's, they had ships from Eastern, Republic, and Hughes Airwest, but no Delta.
As for DC9's... I'm not sure. That's the only possibility, and I can't answer definitively.
United1 From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 5337 posts, RR: 8 Reply 3, posted (3 years 3 months 6 hours ago) and read 1306 times:
Quoting Transpac787 (Reply 1): As for DC9's... I'm not sure. That's the only possibility, and I can't answer definitively.
Heres what I have for DC-9s delivered to DL and operated at one point by NW. I don't think any of these aircraft were in service at the time of the merger however. This list also would not cover any second hand aircraft acquired by DL and I sourced this info off of CH Aviation so it may or may not be completely accurate.
PHLBOS From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 7251 posts, RR: 25 Reply 4, posted (3 years 3 months 5 hours ago) and read 1211 times:
Granted, this was prior to the DL/NW merger but IIRC, one of the NW DC-9-31s that was retired a few years back began life originally as a NE Yellowbird that later bacame a DL DC-9 following the 1972 merger. DL unloaded that plane along w/most (if not all) of the former-Yellowbird DC-9s (many went to AL) 2 to 3 years following the merger.
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MSPNWA From United States of America, joined Apr 2009, 1565 posts, RR: 4 Reply 5, posted (3 years 3 months 5 hours ago) and read 1133 times:
N3324L was retired sometime in 2008, after the merger was announced. I think that was the last ex-DL plane in NW's fleet. Too bad it didn't make it till now. It would be quite the circle of airplane life.
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21448 posts, RR: 24 Reply 6, posted (3 years 3 months 4 hours ago) and read 1033 times:
Quoting PHLBOS (Reply 4): Granted, this was prior to the DL/NW merger but IIRC, one of the NW DC-9-31s that was retired a few years back began life originally as a NE Yellowbird that later bacame a DL DC-9 following the 1972 merger. DL unloaded that plane along w/most (if not all) of the former-Yellowbird DC-9s (many went to AL) 2 to 3 years following the merger.
That was N994Z, originally delivered to Northeast in 1967 as N979NE. After 3 years with DL 1972-75, it was sold to Ozark. It hit a snowplow landing at FSD in December 1983, separating the right wing and killing the snowplow driver. It was repaired using the wings salvaged from the AC DC-9-32 that caught fire and made an emergency landing at CVG earlier in 1983 (23 of the 46 aboard fatal). It was then acquired by Republic a year or so before they merged with NW. NW retired it in 2005.
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