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About the history of McDonnell Douglas DC-10 & Boeing MD-10

Designed in response to the same American Airlines requirement as the Lockheed TriStar, the DC-10, despite a sometimes troubled past, was the more successful of the two widebody trijets. Although originally conceived as a twinjet, the DC-10 gained a third engine at the base of its vertical tail to meet an American Airlines requirement that the aircraft be capable of operating from existing runways. The DC-10 subsequently was launched in February 1968 with orders from American and United. First flight took place on August 29 1970. The first transcontinental range DC-10-10s entered service with American in August 1971. By then work was already underway on the intercontinental range DC-10-30 which introduced more powerful engines, additional fuel tanks and a third main undercarriage unit. Most DC-10s built were 30s (including convertible 30CFs and pure freight 30Fs), while the 40 is a Pratt & Whitney JT9D powered variant ordered by Northwest and JAL. The United States Air Force ordered 60 CF6 powered DC-10s as KC-10A Extender tanker transports. A number of major and catastrophic accidents marred the DC-10's service record in the mid to late 1970s, but the various causes of these accidents were overcome and the DC-10 continues to operate reliably. Production ceased in 1989. The Boeing MD-10 conversion for Federal Express involves fitting DC-10s (both current freighters and "new" ex airliner freighter conversions) with a two crew Honeywell VIA 2000 EFIS flightdeck with six LCD screens. The instrument panel layout is identical to that in the MD-11, and pilots can be qualified to fly the two interchangeably. First flight was on April 4 1999, while the first of 89 MD-10 conversions for FedEx was delivered on May 9 2000 (the same day the conversion was certificated). Boeing is offering the MD-10 conversion to other DC-10 operators.

This aircraft was taken offline at the McDonnell Douglas factory in Long Beach, California on September 18, 1979, and delivered to Condor on December 15, 1974. It is equipped with three General Electric CF6-50C2 engines with a single thrust of 233.5kN (52500 pounds). It is both Condor's second DC-10 and Condor's penultimate retired DC-10. During Condor's twenty years of service, a total of three coating changes were made, namely the Bare metal scheme used from 1979 to 1986, the Pearl grey scheme used from 1986 to 1992, and the White and Grey scheme used from 1991 to 2000. On September 30, 1999, Condor sold it to Onmi Air International with the registration number N630AX. After flying for another ten years, it ceased use in 2009 and was sealed in a VCV, It was ultimately dismantled in VCV in September 2011.

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