
Reflections
Just to beat this dead horse a little more... this is the last somewhat interesting shot I have of this plane. In fact the last photo of note in general. :P
Category Photography / Miscellaneous
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Size 1280 x 960px
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Its the Civil model. You can tell my teh tail and leading edges of the wings most of the time. But i can see how this one must have been in teh Military first. It has most of its traits. But the tail of the aircraft should give it away. Its a T-tail. And the engines are mounted on the back instead of on the bottom of the wings.
The is an early DC-9 aircraft. It is not one of the later versions (called the MD-80s and MD-90s) because there are no strakes on the nose. Whether it started out as a military (C-9) or civil craft (DC-9) I cannot say and the only real difference would be the original customer. Judging by the paint on the tail, I say it is currently in a civil fleet. The thing I find most amusing is the padlock on the door.
If this is the same airplane as in the earlier "Phallice" picture, she is a DC-9-32 manufactured in 1969, serial number 47323. Just for future reference, if you ever want to know who owns a U.S. registered airplane, the FAA maintains a page on its web site that will let you look this up simply by entering the airplane's "N" number. In this plane's case, it is N817AT. The page's address is http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinq.....um_inquiry.asp
If your really interested it was a donation to Georgia Aviation & Technical College's (Now Georgia Aviation Campus of Middle Georgia College) AMT program. It's an old timed out airtran jet which means who the heck knows who the original customer was. And it was broken into once and instruments were stolen hence the padlock. Mostly it just sits down there by the south hanger taking up space. Also if I remember correctly the pilot's seat is missing.
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