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Nowadays flying becomes the most excited and comfortable mean for many people. Well, if you also include in those people, here we want to disclose something very interesting with you. Do you know about the oldest commercial aircraft? Have you ever heard or read about it? Perhaps your answer would be No. Well, here we are disclosing about the oldest planes still in service. Hope you enjoy the information. Let's start the discussion:
Would you feel uncomfortable about flying on a plane implicit 1970? Harold Wilson was making the most of his first stretch at Number 10, George Best was in his free-scoring ceremony, and man's first little advance on the surface of the moon was still crisp in the memory. What's more, 1970 was additionally the year that a Boeing 737-200, with the serial number 20335, made its maiden flight for Air California.
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Very nearly 50 years on, Air California has a long time ago collapsed, Harold Wilson and Bestie have rearranged off this mortal curl, and Nasa is wanting to begin a province on Mars. In any case, 20335 is as yet going solidly in the administrations of Airfast Indonesia, under the enrollment PK-OCG.
Since 1991, in any case, it has been in the administrations of modest Airfast Indonesia, situated in the city of Tangerang, which serves around twelve local goals, including Jakarta, Surabaya, and Denpasar. At 47 years, it is, the extent that our examination can judge, the world's most established traveler plane still in service.
So would you feel comfortable on board? The issue of the unwavering quality of elderly airplane was raised before this late spring when a 31-year-old Jet2 plane, likewise a 737, made two crisis arrivals in the same number of weeks.
Travelers were never in danger, Jet2 stated, however, commentators rushed to call attention to the age of the airship. Enlisted as G-CELI, it was produced in 1986 for Lufthansa, making it nearly as old as this correspondent. Be that as it may, are more seasoned planes extremely more inclined to turn out badly?
Not as indicated by Patrick Smith, a US pilot, and creator of Cockpit Confidential. "Commercial aircraft are worked to last pretty much inconclusively, which is one reason for what reason they're so costly," he revealed to Telegraph Travel. "It's basic for a stream to stay in a benefit for a long time or more."
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The list of world's oldest aircraft still flying paying passengers
• ZS-IJJ, 28/09/1972, Interair South African (737)
• PK-OCG, 25/05/1970, Airfast Indonesia (737)
• YV502T, 12/04/1978, Venezolana (737)
• XA-UHZ, 07/08/1979, EasySky Airlines (737)
• 4L-NAL, 21/03/1980, Georgian Star International (737)
• C-GAIG, 28/09/1979, Air Inuit (737)
• EP-SHB, 22/12/1977, Saha Airlines (747)
• EP-IBS, 16/04/1980, Iran Air (A300)
So, this is the oldest planes in service now as well.
