Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Douglas DC-9-15 returns home to Long Beach


DC-9-15 (45797/51) N8860 operated by Scaife Flight Operations LLC arrived at Long Beach Airport (LGB/KLGB) from Garden City Regional Airport (GCK/KGCK) Kansas at 14:56 on Monday August 1st, 2011. The aircraft was original scheduled for delivery to Iberia as EC-BAX but was NTU instead being delivered to Northeast Airlines as N8953U on December 29th, 1966. The "Baby 9" later served with Delta Airlines until being sold to Richard Scaife on November 28th, 1971 who still owns the aircraft.
 
(Photo by Doug Kerr)  

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