What became of Air New Zealand’s fleet of eight McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s

ZK-NZL. cn 47846. 26-10-72 Assembled in Long Beach California 11-1-73 Delivered to Air New Zealand. ZK-NZL 21-10-81 Sold to American Airlines. Re-registered as N136AA -01- 84 Sold to Polaris Aircraft Leasing Corporation and leased back

to American Airlines. 21-05-88 Damaged beyond repair when nose gear collapsed during take-off Dallas/Forth Worth Texas. 0 fatalities from 254 on board.

ZK-NZL Taxying Long Beach California after post-construction test flight. January 1973.

ZK-NZL Sydney 1981

Ex ZK-NZL – N136AA American Airlines. LAX landing 25R 1987

Ex ZK-NZL – N136AA American Airlines. Damaged beyond repair when nose gear collapsed overshooting the runway end when aborting

take-off at Dallas / Fort Worth Texas 21st May 1988. 0 fatalities from 254 on board.

ZK-NZM. cn 47847. 13-07-73 Assembled in Long Beach California 14-09-73 Delivered to Air New Zealand. ZK-NZM 16-07-82 Sold to American Airlines. Re-registered as N137AA

31-10-02 Last service for American Airlines06-11-00 Withdrawn From Use (WFU) stored Mojave. Hours/cycles by 1-11-00. 104,691 / 19,305

2002 Used in a TV show “Men Vs. Beast” 2002 Sold to GA Telesis for scrapping. Broken up in Mojave

Auckland 1977

ZK-NZM LHR August 1978 ZK-NZM Sydney 1981

ZK-NZM/9M-MAX. Leased by Air New Zealand to MAS. Sold to American Airlines 16 July 1982 Re-registered as N137AA

Kai Tak Hong Kong early 1980s Seen here at Paris in 1993.

6 November 2000 withdrawn From Use (WFU) stored Mojave. ZK-NZM/ N137AA (Photo right) Seen here at Mojave 2001. Used in a TV show “Men vs. Beast” in 2002. ZK-NZN/ N144AA (Photo left) Sold to GA Telesis in 2002 for scrapping. Mojave being scrapped. November 2003

ZK-NZM / N137AA MHV Mojave December 2003. (Centre Wing Tank and left section of N°2 Main Tank exposed by wrecker).

ZK-NZN. cn 47848. 18-01-74 Assembled in Long Beach California

22-01-74 Delivered to Air New Zealand. ZK-NZN 26-11-78 Leased to Malaysian Airline System 16-12-78 Returned to Air New Zealand 14-04-81 Sold to International Lease & Finance Corporation, N821L 14-04-81 Leased to Western Airlines -09-83 Returned to ILFC 21-09-83 Leased to Air Pacific 28-12-84 Returned to ILFC 03-11-85 Sold to American Airlines. Re-registered as N144AA 13-11-00 Last service for American Airlines 13-11-00 WFU and Stored in Dallas/Fort Worth 05-12-00 Ferried to Mojave.

Hours/cycles accumulated by 05-12-00. 103,400 / 20297 2002 Used in TV show “ Men Vs. Beast”

2002 Sold to GA Telesis for scrapping 2002 Broken up

ZK-NZN Los Angeles October 1975

November 1978 Leased to Malaysian Airline System ZK-NZN / N821L Western Airlines Los Angeles rw24L September 1983

ZK-NZN / N821L. Honolulu. Tow into gate October 1983. Sold to American Airlines 3rd November 1985. Re-registered N144AA

ZK-NZN / N144AA. Stored Mojave 2000. Broken up in 2002

ZK-NZP. cn 46910. 08-11-74 Assembled in Long Beach

13-12-74 Delivered to Air New Zealand 29-11-79 Crashed on Mount Erebus Antarctica

ZK-NZP. London Heathrow. Taxying to British Airways maintenance February 1975.

Crashed on Mount Erebus

Antarctica.

28th November 1979.

DC-3 and DC-10 actual size comparison