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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-9/MD-81/MD-82/MD-83/MD-87/MD-88/MD-89 / C-9
    Latest Model:C-9B
    Last Military Serial:162391 USN
    Construction Number:47004/81
    Last Civil Registration:N947AX
    Latest Owner or Location:Roswell International Air Center Airport (ROW), Fairbanks, New Mexico

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    Dates

    Event

    12 December 1966

    Constructed as a DC-9-31.

    19 February 1967

    First flight.

    30 March 1967

    To Ansett Airlines, Australia with c/r VH-CZB.
    First DC-9 series 30 aircraft accepted by non-U.S. based airline.

    From 11 April 1967 to 13 April 1967

    Delivery flight from U.S. to Melbourne Australia.

    17 April 1967

    First revenue flight.

    15 February 1982

    Participated in Memorial Fly-Past for funeral of Sir R.M. Ansett.

    27 March 1982

    Last flight.
    Final revenue service flight from Launceston to Melbourne as AN56.

    March 1982

    Withdrawn from use.
    Placed in open storage Melbourne Tullamarine Airport. Aircraft had 30,184 flight hours.

    30 August 1982

    Civil registration, VH-CZB, cancelled.

    20 September 1982

    To Marfreless, Inc/Corsair, Houston, TX.
    Purchased for leasing to U.S. Navy.

    29 September 1982

    Assigned civil registration: N3281K

    15 November 1982

    Ferry flight.
    Ferried from Australia to Phoenix, AZ.

    November 1982

    Leased to United States Navy.

    From November 1982 to 1983

    Converted to a C-9B.
    Converted by Air International Inc, Phoenix, AZ.

    By October 1983

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 162391.

    By October 1983

    Transferred to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 60 (VR-60), USNR, NAS Millington, TN.
    Operated with markings: 391, City of Millington, RT, 2391

    30 August 1990


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oklahoma CIty Will Rogers Airport

    November 1990

    Returned from lease.

    30 November 1990

    To McDonnell Douglas Corporation with c/r N537MD.

    7 December 1990

    To DHL/Airborne Express Incorporated.

    7 January 1991

    Assigned civil registration: N947AX

    August 2003

    To ABX Air.

    2 January 2009

    To DHL Network Operations.

    3 December 2009

    Civil registration, N947AX, cancelled.

    By December 2009

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Roswell International Air Center Airport (ROW), Fairbanks, NM.
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    Scrapped.
    Scrapped at Roswell, NM.
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    Plane Spotters by Thomas Noack
    RZJets
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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