https://www.foxnews.com/travel/ghost-pl ... -officials

Step right up!

Provided that you have a cool $4.8 Million to spare, and like hideous carpet and upholstery wrecking a gorgeous leather and wood interior, this is your baby:
https://www.controller.com/listings/air ... glas-md-87

It is being sold from Van Nuys, so add a $50k noise abatement fine. Some have recommended paying a few folks to blast rock and roll around the noise sensors 15 minutes on either side of your departure and then request the readings and audio output. Granted, I am not suggesting that because I will never base a plane in California or learn their stupid rules because people encroached on the airport, which was there first WITH radial engines blaring at all hours.

That dude let his wife pick the carpet, didn't he?

Maximum Cruising Altitude 37,000 FT

I find that surprisingly low. Guess it was optimized for short haul despite this use case with extra tanks.

This matches the TCDS, BTW, so not a consequence of any mods.

Mike C.

The MD-80 series suffers from having a wing that is just too small. Back when I was on the plane, 97-00ish, before the airspace went to every thousand feet, only FL310-FL330-FL350 was useable for the -80. Mostly 310 & 330. Very rarely were we light enough for FL370 and sometimes got stuck down at FL290, did wonders for the fuel flow and flight plan.

MD-87 was my favorite of the series, -219 engines with the short body.
Plenty of power, but still landed like a DC9! What’s not to like-
Enjoyed every minute.

I wonder if that is Steve Wynns old airplane.

George

The -219 are very powerful, rocket ship

Especially with 8 people on board.

They were our national carrier SAS's number one aircraft for decades. They used that on pretty long legs, like Stockholm-Canary Islands etc. Always loved them. Up front they were really quiet, too. Last rows, not so much.

I always hoped they'd stick a new nose on the MD series, put some new high bypass fans on it, maybe a new carbon fibre wing and they'd have killer single aisle long range aircraft. But maybe the underlying systems are just too old for that.

Except for the new wing (which would have been key) they did. It was the MD-95 nee McBoglas B717. The underlying systems were just fine.

George

Except for the new wing (which would have been key) they did. It was the MD-95 nee McBoglas B717. The underlying systems were just fine.

George

May be all that, but dang, I found it on the plane spotter jet photo sites and that baby flies a lot all over the world!