Samaritan’s Purse retires the last US-registered DC-8 and dedicates a Boeing 767 relief jet, closing a 57-year chapter in aviation.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — On Friday morning Samaritan’s Purse officially retired its Douglas DC-8 cargo aircraft and dedicated its ...

The DC-8, registration N782SP, has been part of Samaritan's Purse fleet since 2015. It was refurbished and re-engined on purchase and has been the organization's dedicated heavy-lift aircraft. Before ...

Although none of these aircraft would be brought to full-scale production or even enter commercial service, Boeing led the ...

The Global 8000, soon to enter private executive service this year, is the culmination of Bombardier's four decades of ...

Watch the dramatic and tragic moments of Fine Air Flight 101 as the Douglas DC-8 struggles to maintain altitude and crashes shortly after taking off from Miami Airport. #DC8 #Aviation #SantoDomingo ...

United Air Lines officially entered the jet age in 1959 when Flight 800—a Douglas DC-8—operated between San Francisco and New ...

Samaritan’s Purse retires the last DC-8 in the United States and commissions a new 767 to expand its global disaster response ...

U.S. aviation officials are ordering McDonnell Douglas MD-11 planes not be flown until they can be inspected. That's after a ...

Steven Udvar-Hazy was born in Budapest in 1946 during Soviet control of Hungary. His classroom walls showed Stalin and Lenin ...

The narrowbody Boeing 737, which had its maiden flight in 1967, began the process of eliminating the flight engineer. The ...

The 5X McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (N259UP) lined up on Louisville’s runway one seven right at 5:12pm local time, and proceeded down the runway. Video footage from an airport worker shows the flight ...