Flying Back in Time: Discovering the Finnair DC-9 (OH-LYC)

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Built by the Douglas Aircraft Company in the mid 1960’s from the Douglas Aircraft factory in Long Beach California. This Douglas DC-9 was delivered for service at it’s first operator Air Canada from Douglas Aircraft, on March 12, 1966. Initially registered as CF-TLB, and painted in the Air Canada;s 1960’s era livery consisisting of a Red cheatline along the windows and a red vertical stabilizer with a white maple leaf emblazoned on it. As a note this aircraft briefly appeared in an airport scene in the psychological thriller film, “Wait until dark” premiering in 1967. The pictures shown in this video are screen shots from that movie.
After two years of service with Air Canada, the aircraft was briefly returned to the McDonnell Douglas company, before being acquired by Hawaiian Airlines in 1969. While we were unable to find any pictures of the actual aircraft, we can assume it looked similar to the photos shown here. With Hawaiian, the aircraft was registered as N13699. The aircraft would only be in Hawaiian Air service until 1970. In that year, it was transferred over to Atlanta Georgia based Southern Airways, and repainted in their Blue and Yellow striped livery in that era. The registration stayed the same as it had with Hawaiian Airlines.
A year later in 1971, the aircraft changed hands again, this time flying for Finnair. The aircraft received the 1970’s era livery of a Finland blue stripe along the windows with the Finnish flag emblazoned on the tail. The aircraft was registered, with it’s fourth registration number as OH-LYC. This aircraft would remain with Finnair for 12 years of total service in the Nordic environs of northern Europe, the second longest service streak this aircraft had with any one company. From Helsinki, the aircraft could range 1,300 nmi or 2,400 km with up to 109 people, but usually seating was restricted to 90 people at maximum. Typical cruising speed of A DC-9-14 was 484 kn or 897 km/h while being powered by Pratt and Whitney JT8D Series low bypass turbofans, producing 14,000 lbf or 62 kN of thrust each. The aircraft was briefly leased to British Midlands Airways in 1983, with their multiple blue cheatline livery, before being briefly returned to Finnair, in the same year.
Near the end of 1983, the aircraft was acquired by the American flagged , All Star Airlines. With this change, the aircraft saw another new livery with a dark blue belly and red stripe between the belly and white fuselage, and another new registration number, N85AS. This particular aircraft was the first flown by this small airliner. By 1985, the aircraft had transferred over to Midwest Express Airlines, the only changed on this aircraft was the livery, which was a mostly dark blue