Ferry_vO
Retired SOH Administrator
This morning at 6:24 local time the last commercial passenger flight of an MD-11 landed at Schiphol airport, leaving only a few cargo MD-11's flying around.
The landing also marked the end of an eighty (!) year long cooperation between the KLM and Douglas. The KLM was the only company to have operated all of Douglas commercial aircraft, from the DC-2 to the DC-10/MD-11.
Good story with some photos here: http://travelsinorbit.com/2014/08/13/the-mcdonnell-douglas-md-11-end-of-an-era/
The landing also marked the end of an eighty (!) year long cooperation between the KLM and Douglas. The KLM was the only company to have operated all of Douglas commercial aircraft, from the DC-2 to the DC-10/MD-11.
Good story with some photos here: http://travelsinorbit.com/2014/08/13/the-mcdonnell-douglas-md-11-end-of-an-era/