McDonnell Douglas MD-90
The McDonnell Douglas MD -90 is a 1993-2000 built twin- aisle aircraft for short and medium range of the U.S. aircraft manufacturer McDonnell Douglas.
History
The development of the third generation of the DC-9 was launched in November 1988, the first flight of the single version of MD 90-30 was held on 22 February 1993. The MD-90 has a modern cockpit with EFIS screens, and a flight management system. After a certification program of the aircraft type on 16 November 1994 was approved, the first aircraft delivered on 24 February 1995 on Delta Air Lines, which has ordered 31 copies.
After McDonnell Douglas was acquired by Boeing in 1997, Boeing announced in 1997 to cease production of the jet; the last of a total of 116 built MD-90 was delivered on 23 October 2000 by Saudi Arabian Airlines.
The takeover by Boeing dropped the MD-90, together with the planned condensed and extended versions MD-90 -10 and MD -90 50 for sacrifice, for the aircraft sold sluggishly and also competed with the company's own Boeing 737 The reason for the hard time on the market was mainly the Airbus A320 family, with their modern technology, the MD-90 could not keep up. In addition, the A320 had a larger fuselage cross-section and offered dardurch with 3 3 seating configuration, the better seating compared to the 2 3 variant in the MD -90. Only the already far advanced development to a reduced to 100 seats Boeing MD -95 took over and brought them as a Boeing 717 on the market.
Only two of the original 40 planned MD-90 - 30T were produced in Shanghai. Some components of this license production was then taken over for the later developed ARJ21.
Operator
From 116 produced MD-90 are equipped with state in February 2014 with 76 in active service.