Anyone else getting a B727?

Cessnaflyer

Cessnaflyer

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FedEx is dropping off a 727 for our school. It'll be pretty cool to have a semi working 727 for training. Does anyone know if you need a type rating to taxi it around if there is no intent to fly it?
 
MTSU got one about 5 years ago. You don't need any kind of rating to taxi it.

We can't taxi ours since the taxiways won't support it.
 
Luckily our taxiways will support it but the cost to start it up is probably not worth the little experience that will be gained.
 
My roommate if he ever post on here had FDX donate a 727-200 to their A&P school.

He tells me they started it up all the time, and even taxiied the craft around the TUS airport!

Edit: 727's are goin pretty cheap right now. Saw a 200 advanced series in a recent aero trader going for $1.5m!!!

I figure, might need alot of work done however!
 
Very cool we are supposed to be receiving it at the end of May. FDX said the only thing that is being taken off the aircraft are the fire extinguishers, black box and I think some kind of flight bag system.
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
Edit: 727's are goin pretty cheap right now. Saw a 200 advanced series in a recent aero trader going for $1.5m!!!
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So they probably get a tax break for donating the aircraft. By doing it this way instead of selling it for cheap means they won't have to pay tax on the sale.
 
Cessnaflyer said:
FedEx is dropping off a 727 for our school. It'll be pretty cool to have a semi working 727 for training. Does anyone know if you need a type rating to taxi it around if there is no intent to fly it?
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A couple years ago FedEx donated one to the GTCC A&P school at the Greensboro, NC airport. Got to poke around it a couple times, pretty neat stuff. Too bad to see another never-to-be-flown 727, I've always liked those birds. I remember watching the last Delta 727 (ever!) flying out of GSO.

~Z
 
Berkut said:
Here's ours:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...397,-86.379769&spn=0.003734,0.007768&t=h&om=1
http://aerospace.web.mtsu.edu/images/planes/Boeing727.jpg
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Yeah, we use our 727 here at MTSU mainly for the A&P program. We have been running the APU here alot this semester. And we do start the engines from time to time, but within a year or so after the plane got here, someone tried to restart the number 3 engine before it fully spooled down and they sheared the shaft on the starter, so now only the APU and the Number 1 and 2 engines run.
 
That wasn't the only thing that someone trashed. That's why someone isn't working there anymore. ;)
 
Purdue had an old -100 from United then got a 737 (-200 I believe), cut up the 727-100 and then got one of Fedex's 727s last summer...or sometime fairly recently.


Jason
 
I heard Kent State in Ohio rejected getting one. They are in the process of getting a program together, but since it isnt completed yet they rejected the aircraft.
 
I want to get a 727 without any wimpy noise cancelling mods and do touch and goes at HPN at three in the morning full blast.

We know when FEDEX is leaving ALB and arriving ALB everyday!

Long live the three-holer! That SHOULD be everyones first jet, not one of those wimpy 50 seat TV Jets! (Once again thanks to OldTownPilot for the name!)
 
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