<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by RichG:
The video is pretty unbelievable.
Considering that the aircraft is an MD-10, which is a converted DC-10, and that FedEx originally got many of its DC-10's from United, many of us may have been on that plane in the past!</font>
You got me into thinking and doing a little checking.
This DC-10 (N364FE, aircraft 46600/4) isn't just any old former UA DC-10. This was N1801U, one of UAs earliest DC-10s, delivered to UA on 5/15/1972. Taxiways.de (below) refers to it as "United's 1st DC-10."
It doesn't appear to have been the first to fly for UA (that was in 9/1971), but does have the lowest registration number of any UA DC-10. Maybe it was the first ordered? (I don't remember how all of that works.)
It was retired from UA in 1994 and went to FedEx in 1998.
Anyway, more info below, including links to pictures of the aircraft in UA and FedEx schemes:
http://www.taxiways.de/DC-10/46600_004.html
http://aviation-safety.net/database/2003/031218-0.htm
[This message has been edited by studentff (edited Dec 19, 2003).]