Blue Jackets Air | 1979 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 | cn 47799, ln 918 | N697BJ

KLAX (Los Angeles International Airport) - 13 FEB 2013

 

"November Six Nine Seven Bravo Juliet" from Salina Regional Airport (KSLN) - Salina, Kansas - on short final To RWY 25L.

 

This is the team aircraft for the Columbus Blue Jackets NHL hockey team. The Blue Jackets play to Los Angeles Kings on 15 FEB 2013.

 

Production Site: Long Beach (LGB)

Date of Manufacture: 05 JUL 1979

 

Delivery to Texas International Airlines: 21 AUG 1979 as N3510T

Hex Code: A3EAEE

Engines: 2x Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15

 

To Continental Airlines: 31 OCT 1982 as N3510T

Leased from PLM Transportation Equipment Corporation since SEP 1989

Hex Code: A3EAEE

Aircraft Name: City of Milwaukee

Configuration: F8Y100

Engines: 2x Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15

 

Re-registered to Continental Airlines: SEP 1993 as N12510

Leased from PLM Transportation Equipment Corporation until JAN 1997

Leased from Republic Financial Corporation since JAN 1997

Hex Code: A068D9

Fleet Number: 510

Configuration: F8Y95

Engines: 2x Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15

 

To Legend Airlines: 14 JUN 2000 as N926LG

Hex Code: ACD575

Leased from Republic Financial Corporation

Engines: 2x Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15

Withdrawn from use on 02 DEC 2000

 

To Blue Jackets Air: 30 APR 2001 as N697BJ

Operated for Columbus Blue Jackets NHL Hockey Team

Hex Code: A944D9

Configuration: VIP50

Engines: 2x Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15(HK3)

 

*** Update ***

 

Preserved at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport (KAMA) on 21 SEP 2016 at the Texas Air & Space Museum - stored outdoors

 

Still there per Allen Hess's photo on 31 JAN 2020

Done