McDonnell Douglas
MD-80 and MD-90 ferry flights
MD-80 and MD-90 movements are almost always end of life work. The aircraft has usually been parked, the paperwork has gaps and the ferry has to be built around what the airframe can actually do rather than what the manual once promised.
- Older airframes, planned around their real condition
- Storage field recovery after long periods parked
- Part-out and teardown positioning
- Ferry permit basis built around open items
- Crews current on the type and its systems
Getting a parked MD back in the air
Fuel system checks, engine preservation removal and control surface inspection all come before the first taxi. We plan a short first leg to a field with maintenance support so anything found on the ground run can be fixed before a long crossing.
Noise and airport access
Older MD airframes meet noise limits at some airports and not others. We check curfew and noise restrictions along the routing before the plan is fixed, not after a leg is refused.
Common questions
Keep exploring
Every ferry pulls in a type, a route and a registry. These pages cover the parts that sit next to this one.
Services to pair with it
- Chartered flights
When the schedule does not exist yet
- Observation flights
Eyes in the right place
- Parts-out ferry flights
The last flight, flown carefully
- Cargo conversion ferry
From storage to the conversion line
Regions and crossings
- Europe
Dublin · Shannon · Teruel
- Asia Pacific
Tokyo · Kagoshima · Petropavlovsk
- Africa
Harare · Dar es Salaam · Cairo
- Middle East
Dubai · Doha · Bahrain
Registries we work with
- San Marino
T7 prefix · San Marino Aircraft Registry
- Bermuda
VP-B prefix · Bermuda Civil Aviation Authority
- N-registered (FAA)
N prefix · United States Federal Aviation Administration
- Irish CAA
EI prefix · Irish Aviation Authority
Tell us where the aircraft is and where it needs to be
We will come back with a route, a realistic date and a fixed price.