Delta Air Lines is retiring the Douglas DC-9 aircraft, and it's choosing Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport as the decades-old model's last departure location. Delta says the Jan. 6 flight ...

so numbered because it is the aircraft's last year of service, will be preceded by a flight from Detroit to Minneapolis, DL 1965, for the first year the DC-9 model went into service. Delta was the ...

The final round trip bore the designation Delta 1965 – the first year the model entered service ... built the last of the T-tail aircraft in 1982. The DC-9 has been replaced by similar ...

When we think of McDonnell Douglas, we often picture robust airliners almost entirely lost to time today. But many of these ...

For most people, the smallest Boeing aircraft they've encountered ... in a two-class configuration. This model would have similar dimensions to the DC-9-30, which was slightly larger than base ...

When Delta flight 2014 departs Minneapolis for Atlanta later today, it'll mark the last commercial passenger flight for a DC-9 aircraft. Considering that the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 was introduced ...

The business model proved highly successful up through the company’s DC-9 series. After ground school, the fresh pilot got a few bounces in the real airplane, and then he paired up with a senior ...

The pilot and co-pilot killed in Sunday`s crash of a Continental Airlines DC-9 Model 10 in a howling Colorado snowstorm had few hours of experience flying that type of aircraft, and perhaps none ...

Dec. 2] mirrors the experience of the radio-controlled model airplane club in Bladensburg, of which I am secretary. In early 2009, without explanation or opportunity for discussion, the Federal ...