McDonnell Douglas YC-15A 72-1876
McDonnell Douglas YC-15A 72-1876 (msn CX002), the second prototype, at the 1976 SBAC Farnborough Air Show. First flown in December 1975, 1876 was returned to McDonnell Douglas in late-1976 for modifications, including fitting a Pratt and Whitney JT8D-209 engine in the left outer nacelle, flying again on 4 March 1977 after the modifications, but was retired to AMARC as CX002 on 30 August 1979. 1876 was still on the AMARC inventory on 15 January 2008, but had been broken up and scrapped by March 2012
Picture No
13129467
Media ID
47739919
Size
5906px x 3473px
(4.9MB)
Credit
(c) The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Peter Butt
Date
1976
