One of the final operators of the long-serving DC-10 was DAS Air albeit in a cargo capacity. This shot of DC10 Series 30F 5X-JOS was taken on 9th June 2006 not long before DC-10 flights in general started to diminish considerably.
Das Air Cargo DC-10 Series 30F 5X-JOS about to touch down on Runway 08R at London-Gatwick on 9th June 2006 not long before DC-10 flights in general started to diminish considerably.
This must have been one of the last passenger carrying DC-10 arrivals at Gatwick and captures Northwest Airlines DC-10-30ER N240NW arriving on 9th June 2006. Most Northwest flights to Gatwick had transferred over to A330's by this time and this would have been one of the few Northwest DC-10's to appear in the final livery of the airline before its merger with Delta Airlines. Northwest along with Japan Airlines was unusual in originally ordering 22 of the -40 version of the DC-10 powered by Pratt & Whitney JT9D engines rather than the more usual General Electric CF-6 units of the -30 series. Northwest later acquired 24 DC-10-30's with N240NW being the last (l/n 438) and one of only three -30ER models to be delivered to Northwest and presumably the reason why it soldiered on for a little while longer, before leaving the fleet and being transferred to Omni Air on 21st December 2006.
