First flight January 26th 1989, delivered to SAS March 2nd 1989 as SE-DIF "Hjorulv Viking". Spring 2001 SE-DIF repainted to the new SAS colours.. July 22nd 2007 EC-KJE Spanair, painted in Star Alliance colours. January 24th 2012 wfu and stored at Barcelona as Spanair ceased its operations. March 16th 2012 SE-DIF SAS (returned) November 2012 wfu and stored at Kingman airport, USA. December 2012 N544PT rr. January 2015 broken up at Kingman. Seen only two months after delivery, taxing for a rwy 24 departure. Scanned from Fuji HR200ISO negative film

First flight July 25th 1975 at Long Beach, delivered new to Swissair as HB-ISN September 11th 1975, named "Sion". Ocotober 30th 1987 SE-DFN SAS "Ingvar Viking", March 3rd 1988 OY-CTB rr. October 4th 1990 I-SMEJ Alisarda, January 1991 I-SMEJ Meridiana tfd. May 1999 wfu. October 20th 1999 N2248F Amtec. June 20th 2000 UR-BYL Hunair, October 2001 Khors Aircompany, April 2004 Aero Asia International. October 5th 2008 4L-BNN Sky Georgia. 2009 wfu and stored at Tbilisi. SAS leased three DC-9-51s a few years while waiting for new MD-80s Seen a rainy day taxing for a rwy 24 departure

SE-DAS was one of 17 DC-0-41s delivered to SAS in 1974 with Y122 seating for domestic services, replacing DC-9-21s which were to be used for thin international services, and also replacing the last Caravelles in the SAS fleet. SE-DAS had the name "Gardar Viking". 1984 SE-DAS was repainted to the colours on this photo, and reconfig CY105. April 1988 SE-DAS was named "The Viking King" for the Swedish King's official visit to the USA. It was not renamed to "Gardar Viking" again until 1990. January 7th 2002 wfu after nearly 28 years for SAS, after flying SK1606 ZRH-ARN as the final DC-9 flight in SAS. Scanned from Fuji HR200 negative film

First flight October 7th 1981 and delivered to Swissair as HB-INP October 30th 1981 and named "Oberglatt". Augsut 14th 1997 N9229TW TWA and converted to MD-82. December 2nd 2001 N9229TW American Airlines fleet no 4UV. April 2003 Wfu after more than 20 years in the air and stored at Roswell in May 2003. June 2006 bnougth by Jet Midwest, but later broken up. Seen taxing to depart rwy 24 this grey monday in May 1989.

First flight February 5th 1976, and delivered new to Finnair as OH-LYP February 20th 1976. June 1977 N9MD leased to Toa Domestic. October 28th 1978 OH-LYP Finnair (returned). 1998 OH-LYP flew with orange logo for Stockholm as European Cultural Capital 1998. May 2003 wfu and stored at Helsinki. April 24th 2004 UR-CCT UM Air.2009 wfu and stored at Kiev and has remianed derelict there for many years. Seen taxing out for the morning departure back to Helsinki from rwy 24.

First flight November 30th 1970 at Long beach and delviere to Alitalia as I-DIZO February 16th 1971, named "Erice". Septeember 1980 until March 1987 I-DIZO leased to ATI.. March 1987 Alitalia (returned). February 23rd 1989 I-RIFQ rr, Alitalia. December 3rd 1992 I-RIFE rr Alitalia. November 17th 1996 N619NW Northwest Airlines. January 2006 wfu. August 2008 YV368T Aserca Airlines, named "Madre Teresa de Calcuta". wfu December 2012 Seen taxing for a departure back home to Italy from rwy 06. Altialia stated to fly to FBU in November 1988.

10L evening landing shot. Delivered to Swissair as HB-INN in 1981. To Converted to an MD-82 for Trans World Airlines as N928TW in 1997. They merged into American Airlines in 2001. Withdrawn from use at Roswell, NM in 2003. Still there in 2010. Later scrapped.

"Ameristar (AJI) 9747" on the roll for El Paso, Texas this afternoon. Always nice to see a "Diesel 9" in action.

Currently stored and to be scrapped

Delivered to Air Canada March 26, 1969, this DC-9 was sold to City Bank and leased back in 1987. Registered RP-C1536 to to Cebu Pacific Air in October 1998, it was retired by the airline in 2006. The aircraft was broken up at Manila in 2007.

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