DC-9s

In April 2008, one of their DC-9s rammed into a bustling market after failing to lift off from Goma's airport, killing at least 40 people — most of them on the ground.

More than 50 dead in Congo plane crash 2011

Under the latest rule, DC-9s would be allowed to remain in service and accumulate as many as 100,000 flights before being subjected to certain enhanced maintenance requirements and practices, versus limits ranging from around 30,000 to 75,000 flights for various Airbus and Boeing Co. models, including MD-80 series aircraft.

FAA Sets Mandatory Retirement Dates for Jets Andy Pasztor 2010

The flying objects in question include the family of spy planes known as Blackbirds, technological marvels that could fly at heights of 90,000 feet (or about three times the altitude of DC-9s more commonly seen in that era) and speeds near 2,500 mph (think ten football fields in a second), figures that decimated prior records and enabled U.S. reconnaissance photography that arguably tipped the balance of power in the Cold War.

Keith Thomson: The True Story of Area 51's UFOs 2009

Pilots must also pay several thousand dollars for their own training to obtain FAA certificates qualifying them to operate the company's aged DC-9s.

Seeing No Evil 2008

It says it plans to sell 14 757s and A320s that it owns and that are paid off, and it will remove 33 elderly DC-9s from its fleet and try to find buyers, mostly outside the U.S., or sell them for parts.

Oil Surge May Cost Jet Makers Orders 2008

Only after the mid 70s were 737s and DC-9s/MD-80s upgraded to have turbofans 727s were EOLed.

New Emanuel Presentation « Climate Audit 2006

But, first, Garcia rushed out 36,000 of the fresh DC-9s that were identical to the original gun except for the label.

Outgunned PETER HARRY BROWN DANIEL G. ABEL 2003

But, first, Garcia rushed out 36,000 of the fresh DC-9s that were identical to the original gun except for the label.

Outgunned PETER HARRY BROWN DANIEL G. ABEL 2003

But, first, Garcia rushed out 36,000 of the fresh DC-9s that were identical to the original gun except for the label.

Outgunned PETER HARRY BROWN DANIEL G. ABEL 2003

P&W quickly followed up with an entirely new engine, the JT8D, to power the entire world fleet of Boeing three-engine 727s and two-engine Douglas DC-9s and the initial versions of the two-engine Boeing 737.

Lean Thinking James P. Womack 2003