N668US retired from the Delta Air Lines fleet today. Its final revenue flight was from Seoul to Detroit. It continued on to Palms View from Detroit and landed at 3:09pm. The Palms View Aviation Museum is now home to N668US.
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The Vintage Airport Program has announced that they will be getting a retired Delta Air Lines 747-400. Delta's 747's are going to be gone by 2017 but one is going to be in the museum. This is good for the Vintage Airport Program because it came here for Northwest Airlines and it came here for Delta until 2012. In 2012, The 777-200LR was assigned to Tokyo-Narita flights. Delta said there's a chance that a 747-400 may come back for normal service before they're all phased out.
The Northwest Orient 727-100 retired from flight operations last week. It has been the workhorse of the Vintage Airport Program for many years and it's finally stopping its flight operations. It will still be open for tours in the display hanger.
The Vintage Airport Program announced that it will get three former AirTran aircraft. They include, AirTran 717 Normal Livery, AirTran 717 Orlando Magic and last but not least, an AirTran 737-700 Normal Livery. The Vintage Airport Program got the 717's because Delta did not need them and that the same reason for Southwest Airlines and the 737-700. They plane on operating the two normal AirTran aircraft but the Orlando Magic 717 will stay in the display hanger.
Today, the vintage airport program got an American Airlines MD-80 for the museum of flight. It will go by the American Airlines DC-10 on display in the hanger. The aircraft will be open for tours but will not fly.
This is the United Airlines DC-8 that is on display near PLV. The Vintage Airport Program is restoring another United DC-8 to operation.
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List of Aircraft in the Vintage Airport Program
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