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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-9/MD-81/MD-82/MD-83/MD-87/MD-88/MD-89 / C-9
    Latest Model:DC-9-31
    Last Military Serial:162392 USN
    Construction Number:47065
    Last Civil Registration:N948AX
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-9-31 sn 162392 USN cn 47...
    Latest Owner or Location:ABX Air Inc,

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-9-31.

    8 March 1968

    Assigned civil registration: VH-CZD

    10 March 1968

    To Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd keeping c/r VH-CZD.

    From 10 March 1968 to 12 March 1968

    Ferry flight.
    Route: Long Beach-Honolulu-Pago Pago-Nadi-Melbourne.

    11 March 1968


    Photographer: William Wordsworth
    Notes: Ferry tanks (cabin) being refueled in Pago Pago.

    From 31 October 1981 to 23 May 1982

    Operated by Ansett on behalf of Air Vanuatu during this period in Air Vanuatu colour scheme.

    Circa 1982


    Photographer: From the B. Girdwood collection

    9 July 1982

    To Marfreless, Inc keeping c/r VH-CZD.

    30 August 1982

    Civil registration, VH-CZD, cancelled.

    30 August 1982

    Assigned civil registration: N3281R

    Circa 1982

    Leased to U. S. Navy.
    Named *City of Seattle*.

    Circa 1982


    Photographer: B. Girdwood Collection

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 162392 as a C-9B and operated with these markings: RS 392.

    Circa October 1990

    Returned from lease.

    Circa October 1990

    Redesignated as DC-9-31.

    Circa October 1990

    To McDonnell Douglas with new c/r N534MD.

    Circa October 1990

    To Airborne Express keeping c/r N534MD.

    16 November 1990

    Civil registration revised.
    Airborne Express.

    16 November 1990

    To Abx Air Inc, Wilmington, OH with new c/r N948AX.

    27 October 1992

    Certificate of airworthiness for N948AX (DC-9-31, 47065) issued.

    15 August 2003

    To ABX Air Inc, with new c/r N948AX.

    Circa December 2005

    Withdrawn from use.
    Withdrawn from use and stored at Cincinnati, Ohio.

    Circa 2005

    Scrapped.

    16 January 2009

    Civil registration, N948AX, cancelled.
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