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Key facts
- Type
- Narrow-body jet airliner
- National origin
- United States
- Manufacturer
- Douglas Aircraft Company (1965 – 1967) McDonnell Douglas (1967–1982)
- Status
- In limited service for cargo transport and private use
- Primary users
- USA Jet Airlines (historical) Aeronaves TSM , Everts Air Cargo , Northwest Airlines (historical)
- Manufactured
- 1965–1982
- Introduction date
- December 8, 1965, with Delta Air Lines
- First flight
- February 25, 1965
- Variant
- McDonnell Douglas C-9
- Developed into
- McDonnell Douglas MD-80
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Encyclopedic overview
The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 is an American five-abreast, single-aisle aircraft designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It was initially produced as the Douglas DC-9 before August 1967, when the company merged with McDonnell Aircraft to become McDonnell Douglas.
Even before the introduction of its first jetliner, the high-capacity Douglas DC-8, in 1959, Douglas was interested in producing an aircraft suited to smaller routes. As early as 1958, design studies were made; approval for the DC-9, a smaller all-new jetliner, came on April 8, 1963. The DC-9-10 first flew on February 25, 1965, and got its type certificate on November 23, to enter service with Delta Air Lines on December 8.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Douglas DC-9” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.