American Airlines operated an all-Boeing fleet (including aircraft produced by McDonnell Douglas before it merged with Boeing in 1997), between 2009 when it retired the Airbus A300, and July 23, 2013, when it took delivery of its first A321 aircraft. Apart from over 600 aircraft in service, American Airlines has more than 450 aircraft from Airbus and Boeing on order, replacing its aging MD-80 series and 767-300 jets.
§Current Fleet
As of March 2015, the American Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft:
On July 20, 2011, American Airlines ordered 460 aircraft from Boeing and Airbus and took options for a further 465, with the intention of replacing its B767-200 and MD-80 series aircraft. According to American Airlines, this is the largest purchase of aircraft in history.
Notes:
- ^1 For both the 737NG and 737MAX family, American Airlines has the option to determine closer to delivery date what version to take delivery of. For the 737NG, American can choose the 737-700, -800 and -900ER.
- ^2 Order for 130 Airbus A320 family CEO aircraft was split equally between A319 and A321.
- ^3 Overall order for 260 Airbus A320 family aircraft was split equally between direct sales and 3rd party leases to be arranged by Airbus. This has since shifted towards a higher proportion of direct sales.
§Fleet gallery
§Fleet history
Notes:
- 8 Boeing 377s and seven Lockheed L-049 Constellations served in American Overseas Airways' transatlantic service and were acquired by Pan American World Airways.
- In early 1970 before AA took delivery of its own Boeing 747, the company leased 2 Pan Am 747-121s (N740PA & N743PA). These aircraft were painted in full AA livery, and were operated until early 1971, then returned to Pan Am after AA received its own new 747-123s.
- After American acquired Trans Caribbean in 1971, the company briefly owned TC's fleet of 5 DC-8s (3 -50s & 2 -61s). These aircraft were never operated by AA and were sold to other carriers.
- Most Boeing 747-100s were retired from passenger service in the late 1970s and served as freighters until their final retirement in 1985. Several were retired earlier; NASA acquired one of the early retired aircraft, N905NA, in 1974 and has since used it as a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Early in its NASA career, the aircraft continued to carry the American Airlines tricolor cheatline. A Boeing 747-100 was used in the film Airport 1975, registration number N9675, which was delivered to the carrier in 1971. The aircraft was redressed in the "Columbia Airlines" livery for this film. American flew the aircraft both as a passenger jet and later as a freighter only, under the "American Freighter" titles. The aircraft has been in storage at Roswell, New Mexico, since 2005 under registration number N675UP, in UPS colors, its last operator. This aircraft was scrapped in 2013.
- American briefly operated a Boeing 747-200C freighter N749WA (serial number 20653/line number 237) for 6 months in 1984.
- American Airlines retired their Airbus A300s in August 2009 after 21 years of service and they are now stored in Roswell. One American A300 was scrapped at Victorville Airport in March 2009, its tail number was N7055A.
- 21 Boeing 737-100/200/300s and 8 BAe 146 aircraft operated between 1987 and 1992 were acquired with the assets of Air California and primarily operated from AA's hub at San Jose International Airport. 8 737-3A4s that were once operated by American Airlines were purchased by Southwest Airlines and as of 2010, N679AA is the only remaining former Air Cal/AA 737-3A4 in service by Southwest.
- In addition to original-run MD-80 series aircraft, American also operated 28 Boeing 717 aircraft acquired from Trans World Airlines between 2001 and 2003. American also briefly owned 5 MD-87s and 5 MD-90s acquired from Reno Air.
- American Airlines also operated a small fleet of Convair 440 prop aircraft from the mid-1970s to 1980 in the Caribbean via a wholly owned subsidiary, American Inter-Island Airlines. Scheduled passenger service was operated between San Juan, St. Thomas and St. Croix until runway improvements were completed at St. Thomas thus permitting a return of American jet service (see American Airlines accidents & incidents, April 27, 1976 American Airlines flight 625). There is a small exhibit commemorating American Inter-Island at the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum near Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport.
- American Airlines was the largest passenger DC-10 operator before retiring them in 2000, operating a total of 55 DC-10-10s and 11 DC-10-30s.
§See also
- American Airlines
- US Airways fleet (part of the American Airlines Group)
§References
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