CP-2791, operated by TAB Airlines - as of 2023, the last McDonnell Douglas DC-10 to be in commercial service.
Posted by Skulldetta@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 14 comments
Fluffy-Proof-5175@reddit
I highly doubt this plane will ever fly again now that the FAA grounded all dc10s
SerasAshrain@reddit
Idk if anyone will see this but I work next to a small airport in Florida and heard a loud jet taking off. Usually it’s just small prop planes, small private jets but this time the walls were shaking. I took a look at flight radar and it turned out it was this exact MD-10 from TAB in this picture. Not sure what it was doing here but it’s pretty cool. Had no idea that these planes were mostly extinct.
sherbzie@reddit
Brooksville Regional by any chance? Only asking because it landed there this morning. I assumed it was going there to be scrapped, but your post makes me wonder...
SerasAshrain@reddit
Yea I work in the industrial park at the airport. I didn’t even hear it land lol… nice to see it’s still around
ClippyGuy@reddit
As of 2025 there is also one for Cargo Three, and don't forget the 4 Tankers. However it is sad that the final DC-10-10F flight is kind of unknown when it happened
EmergencyGarlic2476@reddit
Yesterday some of the tires burst on landing, not sure if it will return to service.
AlexandruGH5@reddit
Mf be Luke "I'm tired, boss".
Significant-Piece-16@reddit
2L751 from Miami to La Paz https://fr24.com/BOL751/3641178a
She still going strong 💪
zz757zz@reddit
The airplane was recently overhauled in MIA and is now back in revenue service...lots of life left in this DC10!
Skulldetta@reddit (OP)
Numbers of DC-10 airframes drastically reduced after their main operator FedEx retired them from their fleet.
The only other operational DC/MD-10 airframe is N330AU, which serves as an ophthalmic teaching facility for Orbis.
Oseirus@reddit
If you want to loosen your definition of a DC-10, KC-10s have at least a couple more years before they're unjustly axed. May not be strictly the same bird but close enough on paper.
Winchery@reddit
Unjustly? I find it funny how often the Air Force desperately wants to axe aircraft types from their fleet and politicians force them to keep them around just so some jobs can be kept around. Our force is literally shaped by moron politicians.
Two of my favorite aircraft are the A-10 and B-1 and for over twenty years the Air Force has been trying to stop wasting money on these outdated platforms and for twenty years politicians have forced them to keep using this old tech.
Of course people like you will call it unjust when they are finally retired. I get it, I was in the AF and one of the ancient aircraft we flew was just retired and lots of people that worked with it think it should have stuck around forever because to them it was personal and they have no ability to understand the bigger picture.
Oseirus@reddit
Two points to make here:
The KC-135 is over 20 years older than the KC-10 AND one jet can literally do the work of two -135s. The -135 is an old, trash airplane that's got a higher break rate, a smaller mission capability, and requires millions of dollars in upgrades just to stay vaguely relevant. But yes, the -135 was definitely the more logical choice here.
Secondly, just because a jet is going away doesn't mean jobs are going away. They just shuffle those maintainers and pilots to other airframes. Money is a factor, but "keeping jobs" is completely irrelevant. If anything the Air Force is killing contracts by scrapping the KC-10, due to the nature of supply procurement.
But of course "people like you" only see the the news headlines rather than the fact the AF is literally strangling itself with awful decisions.
Dexter942@reddit
The -135's engines are the CFM56, which is easier to get parts for than the CF6, which had it's parts line begin winding down recently.