NORTHSEATIGER From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2003, 432 posts, RR: 5 Posted (9 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 2019 times:
Whats the longest amount of aircraft hours you have ever heard recorded for a single airframe ??
The most I know of is for a S-61 which was 43,000 and that was 6 years ago (that was the world record for the a/c type) and this aircraft is still in commercial service today, can anyone top that ??
KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12027 posts, RR: 43 Reply 1, posted (9 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 1975 times:
Northseatiger, unless you are talking specifically helicopters, 43.000 is not a very large amount. Several of NW's DC9s are in the 70-100.000 hr range.
NORTHSEATIGER From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2003, 432 posts, RR: 5 Reply 2, posted (9 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 1955 times:
Cheers for the reply I did'nt know what kind of hours fixed wing airframes clocked up as I have seen some pics with peolpe saying "and it's clocked up some 4000 hrs" so I guess most stiff wings i.e 747's (older models) will have huge amounts of hours ??
Delta-flyer From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 2676 posts, RR: 7 Reply 3, posted (9 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 1947 times:
Browsing around the internet for jets for sale, I've seen many in the 60-70,000 hour range. Maybe 43,000 hours is a record for a helicopter.
Hirisk From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 223 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (9 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 1934 times:
how many hours do you think are on the old DC-3's?(bunches still flying)
KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12027 posts, RR: 43 Reply 5, posted (9 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 1891 times:
Northseatiger, you work in the oil shuttle service? I have a few friends working at CHC Astec in SVG.
KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12027 posts, RR: 43 Reply 8, posted (9 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 1830 times:
Northseatiger, cool Then I've shipped a lot of (heavy!!) stuff to you. I used to work for WF in SVG. Lots of oil equipment, and stuff from CHC Astec Helikopter Servicen to CHC Scotia going as cargo SVG-ABZ.
KYIPpilot From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 1383 posts, RR: 7 Reply 12, posted (9 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1531 times:
There are several DC-3's with over 100,000 hours on them, and still going strong.
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WrenchBender From Canada, joined Feb 2004, 1779 posts, RR: 9 Reply 14, posted (9 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1520 times:
Avt007,
So are the CAF's, running 24-26 K on 4 frames ser #'s 304 thru 307. Note that the one Borek retired was ser #2, been around since 66 or so. I know the director of maint and he told me it had timed out on cycles. The other -6 in a museum, is here in YOW at the national aerospace museum it is ser #1 the deHavilland prototype that did all the certification flights. very low time on it.
I've seen higher than on here, except for that 737-200 with 117k hours on it. NW flew 727s with up to 120,000 hours. DAS Air Cargo has a DC-10 with around 120,000 on it.
Corey07850 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 2519 posts, RR: 5 Reply 16, posted (9 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1443 times:
Chdmcmanus From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 374 posts, RR: 2 Reply 17, posted (9 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1436 times:
Corey07850,
Military acft actually rack up a lot less time than civil air carriers. About the highest Mil acft times I've heard of are the C-141's with 45,000 hrs, at 40 years old. The flip side is landing the cycles, which is more than triple most civil acft, for equivalent time. The military loooooooves touch and goes, and it is very common to do 10 or 15 on a 4 hr training sortie. The KC-10 is one example, at 20 years old, most of them average around the 17,000 hr mark, but our landing cycles are up around 10,000. The result is the ASIP (Aircraft Structural Integrity Program) models which predict stress area concentrations, show the KC-10 with the same levels of fatigue as the DC-10-30F's with twice the hours, but half the landings.
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Then I've shipped a lot of (heavy!!) stuff to you. I used to work for WF in SVG. Lots of oil equipment, and stuff from CHC Astec Helikopter Servicen to CHC Scotia going as cargo SVG-ABZ.
you will have sent us main rotor heads, main gearboxes, engines e.t.c ?? they are the big boxes for us !! 
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