There are a few signs of manufacturing where the wings meet the fuselage, but the overall shape of the model is great. Both Inflight and Gemini Jets do nice job of including these features in their models. This included the aft, rear air stairs and a forward air stairs that were built into the airframe and were also incorporated in MD-80 series.
Gemini jets obama series#
Douglas Aircraft designed the DC-9 series to be a self-sufficient aircraft, that would allow it to operate at airfields with limited ground services and resources. The Inflight 200 model has a fixed gear, with rolling rubber wheels and details including antennas, a stand out beacon, numerous outlines, and an area where the forward air stairs would be. That being said, for an earlier model, the Northwest DC-9 is still a great, classic model with a good amount of detail. This is something I will be keeping in mind when I grade these models individually. One thing to keep in mind is that the Inflight 200 DC-9 is an older model, released in 2007 and its lack of details show accordingly. However, MD-80 is a term that stuck with the DC-9-80 series and is still used to this day.Įngines: 2 x Pratt and Whitney JT8D-219 The Inflight200 Northwest DC-9 and Gemini200 MD-80 side by side.īoth Inflight and Gemini 200s have a great McDonnell Douglas DC-9 mold. The aircraft certificate then changed to the MD-88 (to include the MD-87, MD-90 and MD-95). Up until the MD-88, all the DC-9s were dash series, from the DC-9-10 (dash 10) to the DC-9-83 (dash 83). A little history on the DC-9 vs MD-80 terminology: DC-9s were originally produced by Douglas Corporation and are all a common type rating for crews, from the DC-9-10 series all the way to the MD-95 (modern day Boeing 717). You may notice that I use MD-80 and DC-9-83 in this post interchangeably, but there are some differences. Allegiant Air recently did modifications on its entire MD-80 fleet and N865GA was updated to DC-9-83 series, which included an updated version of the JT8D engines. N865GA is still active at Allegiant Air, and features 166, all-economy Low Cost Carrier (LCC) style seating. SAS officially retired SE-DIX in May 2004 and after a short time in storage, it was picked up by Allegiant Air in September of the same year.
Gemini jets obama registration#
Originally delivered to SAS as a DC-9-81 and a registration of SE-DIX, it flew most of its younger days at SAS, with a brief lease to Spanair in 2003. N865GA rolled off the same delivery line as N943N some 15 years later in 1990.
In July of 2008, N943N was flown to Pinal Airpark in Arizona where it was officially retired and scrapped. At the time, the aircraft had a configuration of 16 first class seats and 84 coach seats. Then, in 1986 Northwest Airlines merged with Republic Airlines and the aircraft ended up with its last paint scheme at Northwest. In July 1979, North Central acquired Southern Airways and formed Republic Airlines. Originally, it was delivered to North Central Airlines in May of the same year. N943N rolled off the production line in Long Beach, CA in 1975. Today I will be comparing the models of 2 different manufacturers, with their McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80 line up.
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