Originally Posted by
FlyAstarJets
I thought we only had four 757C's. We have five??
Dxr, do you have the tail #'s of the five, and which of those are the three we picked up from National?
THX,
FAJ
I thought it was going to be five aircraft ultimately. A one-for-one replacement with 721CX being the last one to go because of the GE engines. Plus National had four aircraft in OSC.
When talking with a friend who worked with 151GX at another airline, he indicated it wasn't a great airplane because it had a high OEW and low MTOW (230,000lbs). That probably has all changed with the conversion. Other then that he seemed to indicated it wasn't a hanger-queen which is a good start. All of these airplanes have done very limited flying in the last 2-3 years.
N556CM -
Marcel van Noordenne's Boeing 757 Website - 26273/0597
N151GX -
Marcel van Noordenne's Boeing 757 Website - 24451/0227
N763CA -
Marcel van Noordenne's Boeing 757 Website - 26154/0486
N259CA -
Marcel van Noordenne's Boeing 757 Website - 26152/0478
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N168CA -
Marcel van Noordenne's Boeing 757 Website - 27259/0609
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N168CA is the fourth aircraft in OSC and I assume it will also be delivered making five aircraft total. Maybe not though. It might be a B757F instead.
If you see reference to
N176CA, ignore it as National flies this aircraft in a full passenger configuration out of DXB. If you see reference to
N169CA, ignore it. They used to fly that one in a full passenger configuration out of DXB but returned it to the lessor and replaced it with N176CA last summer. Now N169CA is in VCV being converted to a full freighter and will be going to FedEx. If you see reference to
N459CA, ignore that as well because it was the planned registration of N151GX had it flown for National. National's owner has the initials "CA" and he wants all his aircraft to end in CA.
AFAIK, the plan right now is to
not put IS&S panels into these aircraft. Instead they will all be the EADI/EHSI (Fast/Slow I guess) displays. However, they all will be upgraded to the PEGASUS FMC and maybe the MCDU which should include GPS MMRs (think 712AX). This would allow for one worldwide navdatabase instead of what is currently done with the 767s.
By the way here is Cappy's fourth 757.....
N557CM -
The Boeing 757 Website - 23687/0106