As the production line for the -200 and -300 Classic was winding down a few airframes were produced with -400 engines
How many of these were made and was there a significant improvement in performance, particularly range ?
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Re: 747 Classics with 744 engines
Don't know about any other frames, but the VC-25A's are powered by CF6-80C2B1's which went on to the -400
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Re: 747 Classics with 744 engines
diverted wrote:Don't know about any other frames, but the VC-25A's are powered by CF6-80C2B1's which went on to the -400
The VC-25A is a bit of a 747-200 EVO in many ways. Glass cockpit among other things.
Re: 747 Classics with 744 engines
Starlionblue wrote:diverted wrote:Don't know about any other frames, but the VC-25A's are powered by CF6-80C2B1's which went on to the -400
The VC-25A is a bit of a 747-200 EVO in many ways. Glass cockpit among other things.
The VC-25A originally came out of the factory with "steam" gauges. The glass was added later as an upgrade to the cockpit.
Re: 747 Classics with 744 engines
The VC-25A has as MMO stated an after market version of a glass cockpit. Nothing special, and little more that a poor mans verdion of the 757/767, and of course no EICAS. It does have a Nav station of sorts which is kind of unique.
Re: 747 Classics with 744 engines
Some late 200s and 300s had the CF6-80C2B1, which is mechanically very similar to the B5F on the 400, where the "F" stands for FADEC. The FADEC engines had a few points better burn than the non-FADEC engines, but looked basically the same from the outside.
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Re: 747 Classics with 744 engines
According to my sources following 747-200 and 747-300 were delivered with CF6-80 engines:
22870, 22871, 23721, 23722, 23824, 23825, 24106, 24107, 24108, 24159, 24160
22870, 22871, 23721, 23722, 23824, 23825, 24106, 24107, 24108, 24159, 24160
Re: 747 Classics with 744 engines
Those are some rare Classics then
Other than the VC25’s I wonder if any are still flying
Other than the VC25’s I wonder if any are still flying
Re: 747 Classics with 744 engines
trijetsonly wrote:According to my sources following 747-200 and 747-300 were delivered with CF6-80 engines:
22870, 22871, 23721, 23722, 23824, 23825, 24106, 24107, 24108, 24159, 24160
The first one (UTA 747-3B3 22870) appears to be CF6-50 engines. 22871 was not built. All of the others (Thai, USAF, Varig and Air India) look to be CF6-80s.
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