Reference
McDonnell Douglas DC-8-71/73F
Stretched DC-8 re-engined for later cargo years. Payload, hold, door and the job it usually flies are below.
Withdrawn from commercial cargo flying.
- Structural payload
- 48,000 kg
- Hold volume
- 302 m³
- Hold length × width × height
- 39.00 × 3.13 × 2.10 m
- Main cargo door
- 3.50 × 2.16 m
How the McDonnell Douglas DC-8-71/73F is used
The stretched DC-8-60 series fitted with quieter, more efficient turbofans, lifting around forty-five tonnes.
The new engines bought the airframe about two more decades of commercial cargo work before noise and fuel rules caught up with it.