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/143

01.02.1973: Assembled in Long Beach

08.03.1974: To Northwest Orient Airlines (1156), N156US

01.10.1986: New name: Northwest Airlines

????: Named (City of Amsterdam)

29.09.2001: Ferried from Minneapolis/St. Paul to Roswell, NM, WFU and stored

01.03.2002: To Memphis Group

13.03.2002: Ferried to Greenwood, MS

2003: Broken up in Greenwood, MS

DC-10-40

 

Engines:

3 JT9D-20J


Photo from B. Fleischmann collection

When this photo was taken in Fort Lauderdale March 1979, #143 still had more than 22 years of life ahead.

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Photo by Frank Schaefer

#143 in Los Angeles in April 1993, already without "Orient" titles.




Photo by Miguel Snoep

#143 in Amsterdam-Schiphol

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Photo by Rob
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Like many of its fleetmates, #143 is being stripped of some useful parts in Greenwood, MS (GWO 28/03/2002).



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