<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Gman3:
Yes! Please tell me the difference as well. I am an avation employee and afficianado but I don't even know the difference. We do not have DC9s at United.</font>
Two major differences:
1) The DC9-10's are small, less rows of FC/MC seating.
2) The DC930/DC9-40/DC9-50 are considered the larger DC9's.
Other Difference:
A) (7) DC9-31/32's, (12) DC9-41's, and (24) DC9-51's have 580 gallon std aux. fuel tank
B) (10) DC9-51's have 780 gallon aux. fuel tanks
C) (39) DC9's consisting of (8) DC9-10's, (30) DC9-31 and (1) DC9-32 have had Ventral stairs removed for fuel economy. The rest of the DC9 fleet still have the retractable stairs under the forward Left door.
D) (12) DC9-31's have Barrell long range fuel tanks
The fleet information above in based on Aircraft fleet information from April 2002.
The current NWA fleet has been reduced from 170 DC9's in 2002 to 165 DC9's in 2004.
RC